Background
McLaughlin was born at Killygordan, County Donegal, the youngest child of a stationmaster.
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Hugh McLaughlin
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At 16, be became a barman"s apprentice in Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland. By 1950 he was involved with a printing company called Fleet and began publishing magazines for greyhound owners. He printed Kavanagh"s Weekly in 1952, which featured Patrick Kavanagh.
Due the success, Hugh McLaughlin decided to continue to publish indigenous Irish magazines.
These would compete with British magazines. Titles included Creation, Irish Farmers Journal, Woman"s Way, Woman"s Choice, Business & Finance, This Week (1969-1972) and Nikki.
These magazines were published by his company the Creation group. Business & Finance is a business magazine that was established by McLaughlin in September 1964.
By 1977, Creation went into liquidation, which resulted in magazine titles being sold and in 1978 Independent Newspapers took control of 54 per-cent in the Sunday World.
In 1982, he unsuccessfully launched a daily newspaper, the Daily News. This was to be his last publishing venture. In retirement McLaughlin invented a machine, the water hog, that removed water from cricket pitches and putting greens.
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Irish