Tributes paid to 'bubbly' ECHO journalist and writer

Monica O’Hara, a former features writer and medical correspondent at the ECHO, died peacefully in her sleep in the early hours of Friday, April 12, aged 88, following a stroke six days earlier from which she never fully recovered consciousness.

Before this, she had been a freelance contributor to numerous women’s weekly magazines throughout the early 1960s. During her time at the ECHO, Monica interviewed and was on friendly terms with many of the notable personalities of the day; television presenters Michael Parkinson and Chris Tarrant, England’s World-Cup winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks, outspoken politician Edwina Currie and actress Anna Friel to name but a few.

Her list of published works include ‘The Causes and Treatments of Kidney Disease’, ‘Hands Off The Titanic’, ‘I Died on The Titanic’ and ‘Lady of Lanarth’.

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