Laugh-out-loud moments in a book of anecdotes about life in old Fleet Street and the assorted celebrities who featured in his newspaper columns
John McEntee is a charmer who has exploited his Irish gift for comedic story-telling to such effect that he has been able to lead a charmed journalistic life.
He has long been renowned as the guy you would most like to spend time with in a pub ... or elsewhere for that matter. He tells his anecdotes so well and, in a true measure of a wonderful raconteur, it is always fun to hear him retell them. Often.
“You fucking Irish. You left the lights on in Dublin so the Germans could bomb Belfast. Your refuelled U-boats off the coast of Galway and you signed a book of condolence for Hitler at the end of the war. You treacherous, treacherous Irish.”
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