Corry was born in Dublin, the third of four children of Patrick Corry (1916–1971) from Kilmacduane,
Cooraclare and Anne Corry née MacMahon (1929–2009) from Clahanmore,
Milltown Malbay, both from
County Clare. He grew up in
Ardclough,
Straffan,
County Kildare, Ireland.
Career Corry was educated at
Scoil Mhuire, Clane, at the
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and
University College Dublin (UCD). His first published work, as a teenager, was poetry in English and the Irish language in literary magazines and the
New Irish Writing section of
The Irish Press. 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. He revived the literary and travel sections of the paper and was an adjudicator of the
Dublin Theatre Festival awards. When
The Irish Press closed in 1995 he became Features Editor of the short-lived
Evening News, storylined the GAA museum in Croke Park in 1998 and was founding editor of
High Ball magazine. Since then he has been a columnist, first with
The Sunday Business Post and then with the
Evening Herald and
Irish Independent. As a journalism lecturer in the
Dublin Institute of Technology he told students that "journalism is about p-sing people off".
Television 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. He wrote the ten-part series
GAA@125, screened on Irish television station TG4 in 2009. ==Ciarán Corry==