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Harry Conroy: journalist and trade unionist

Harry Conroy, who has died aged 67 of cancer, was a journalist, trade unionist and public relations consultant throughout a long and colourful career.

By Conroy’s own admission, for most of his life he led a Jekyll and Hyde existence, observing that by day he was a financial journalist interviewing leading capitalists and by night an active trade unionist and Labour Party activist.