My father, Dan O’Neill, who has died aged 90, was a journalist for the South Wales Echo for 40 years. He also wrote for the Guardian in the mid-1960s, including reports of Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour.
Born in Cardiff, Dan was the youngest of the eight children of Dan O’Neill, who worked in coal exporting, and his wife, Kate (nee McLean), both descendants of
Irish immigrants.