Mick Dunne

Michael 'Mick' Dunne (27 May 1929 – 11 August 2002) was an Irish sports journalist who pioneered television coverage of Gaelic games.

Educated at Clonaslee national school and Knockbeg College, County Carlow, he went to work in the etchings library of the Irish Press in 1947, becoming Gaelic games correspondent in 1957.

After his retirement he wrote regular columns for the Irish Independent and Gaelic Sport magazine.

He was contributing editor to High Ball magazine following its establishment by Mike Hogan and Eoghan Corry in 1998, having previously edited Gaelic World.

In 2010 his archive was handed over to the GAA museum in Croke Park by his daughter Eileen, a newsreader with RTÉ.