Fiona McHugh is an Irish journalist and editor. Educated at University College Dublin, where she studied English and philosophy. As a journalist, she worked for The Economist, Bloomberg, and Reuters, before being appointed editor of the Irish edition of The Sunday Times, in 2000, succeeding Rory Godson, a position she held until 2005. With her husband, property developer Paul Byrne, they founded Fallon & Byrne, the high-end food store in 2005, in Exchequer Street in Dublin. In 2017, they opened another branch in Rathmines, which included a restaurant. The Rathmines branch was closed in January 2020, and they sold Fallon & Byrne in early 2020. McHugh and her husband still own and run Lenehans Bar and Grill, in Rathmines.
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