He began his journalistic career as a sportswriter with The Irish Times and Sunday Tribune where he won several awards and became sports editor.
Determined to pursue a career outside of sports journalism, he joined The Sunday Press as a feature writer in 1985 and became features editor of The Irish Press in 1986, bringing younger writers and a more contemporary, polemical and literary style to the paper.
[2] He revived the literary and travel sections of the paper and was an adjudicator of the Dublin Theatre Festival awards.
[3] Eoghan Corry has fronted travel shows broadcast in Ireland and the Middle East and is a regular commentator on travel affairs to Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and TG4, and an occasional guest contributor to BBC Northern Ireland.
[4] His brother Ciarán Corry (21 July 1956 – 26 April 2011) was the author of the "Last Corncrake" column in the Donegal News.