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Michael Mills grew up in Co Laois.
For most of his life, Michael Mills worked as a journalist and
broadcaster on matters of political interest. He was political
correspondent of The Irish Press for some 20 years, during which
time he wrote about the Arms Crisis, Seán Lemass, Jack
Lynch and the rise of Charles J Haughey. He was also one of the
first panelists on the television programme 'The Hurler on the
Ditch', which could claim through its pressure on the political
parties to have succeeded in making a breakthrough in government
policy in relation to the amount of annual increases in social
welfare spending. Mills was Ireland's first Ombudsman and held
the post from 1984 to 1995. During that time he became acquainted
at first hand with many of the social problems of older people
in dealing with bureaucracy. His biography Hurler on the Ditch
from Journalist to Ombudsman deals with this topic amongst
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