I am saddened to learn of the death of my fathers friend James Kelly (Journalist) who has died on Thursday at the age of 100.

“Jimmy” Kelly, a man of the highest integrity was a working journalist for a staggering EIGHTY TWO years. His last column was published in the Irish News just after his hundredth birthday.

Co-incidently on Thursday, the day of his death, I blogged here about the miserable standard of Journalism in Norn Iron and how only two were any good. ..the rest being narcissistic, self promoting buffoons. The death of Jimmy Kelly means that there is now probably only one decent journalist, who is fit to breathe the same air that he breathed.

Surprisingly (or not), the message board, Slugger O’Toole which waxes lyrical about Norn Irons journalists and the wider freemasonry of Journalism, have not mentioned Jimmy in an obituary. Maybe not Sluggers kinda Journalist.