John Waters is a columnist with The Irish Times and former editor of Magill magazine. His journalistic career began in 1981 with the leading Irish political-music magazine Hot Press. He went on to write for the Sunday Tribune and later edited In Dublin and Magill. Waters has written five books and in 1998 he devised The Whoseday Book, a book that contains quotes, writings and pictures of 365 Irish writers and musicians - which has so far raised some €3m for the Irish Hospice Foundation.

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  • John Waters is a columnist with The Irish Times and former editor of Magill magazine. His journalistic career began in 1981 with the leading Irish political-music magazine Hot Press. He went on to write for the Sunday Tribune and later edited In Dublin and Magill. Waters has written five books and in 1998 he devised The Whoseday Book, a book that contains quotes, writings and pictures of 365 Irish writers and musicians - which has so far raised some €3m for the Irish Hospice Foundation. Waters is an ardent supporter of fathers' rights in Ireland. John Waters is the father of a daughter named Róisín with singer Sinéad O'Connor. He writes a weekly column for The Irish Times that appears on a Friday. He was briefly fired during a dispute between him and the current editor of the Irish Times, but was subsequently reinstated.
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  • John Waters is a columnist with The Irish Times and former editor of Magill magazine. His journalistic career began in 1981 with the leading Irish political-music magazine Hot Press. He went on to write for the Sunday Tribune and later edited In Dublin and Magill. Waters has written five books and in 1998 he devised The Whoseday Book, a book that contains quotes, writings and pictures of 365 Irish writers and musicians - which has so far raised some €3m for the Irish Hospice Foundation.
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