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The glamorous Maureen Fox, former women’s editor with The Cork Examiner. Her daughter has compiled her columns in a new book, with the proceeds going to four charities.

She's been described variously as a 'pioneer', 'an extraordinary woman' ' a woman before her time' and the 'doyenne' of Cork media. Now the work of Maureen Fox, former columnist and Women's Editor of The Irish Examiner (when it was The Cork Examiner) has been preserved in a book.

Maureen's daughter Tanya compiled the selection of her beloved mother's weekly columns for the book in what was obviously a labour of love.

It was launched in Cork last week by Mayor Noel O'Connor and is now on sale, with the proceeds being divided between four charities, Penny Dinners, Cork, Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind, Cork Arc Cancer Support and the Irish Wheelchair Association.

As well as a selection of Maureen's columns, including the ones she wrote through the eyes of her Basset hound Ponsonby, who accompanied her practically everywhere, including to work. The book contains memories of this woman of style and passion by a number of contributors, among them her Examiner colleagues and Myrtle and Darina Allen of Ballymaloe House.

"She wrote beautifully and I, like thousands of her other devotees, looked forward to her weekly articles in The Cork Examiner," Darina Allen writes.

Maureen was a fiesty, opinionated woman working in a male-dominated industry and era. Author and playwright Declan Hassett remembers her as being "blessed with a porcelain beauty which encased a tenacity of spirit and an indefatigability which made her a formidable patron of cause and complaint. Her fearlessness was never obdurate though, but tempered with an innate sense of humour and decency."

Maureen was born in Lismore and is fondly remembered there still. She was an actress as well as a writer. This book offers a great insight into the glamorous, funny, compassionate woman, her life and times.

It's available from bookshops locally and from the Heritage Centre in Lismore.

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