Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
Cork on Sunday a key investor. The company which was established to launch the new "Cork On Sunday" later started the "East Cork Express", which operated as a newspaper for the East Cork area from 2002 until 2005. Cork on Sunday Cork on Sunday was a Cork Sunday newspaper serving Cork City and County which was published in 1996 and 1997. It was started in August 1996 by Joseph O'Connor, formerly the boss of Cork super pirate ERI and operated from the former radio studios of both ERI and 96FM. The newspaper was moderately successful with audited circulation of 4,500 copies per week