page_title: Quentin Fottrell
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caption_attribution_description: English: Author and columnist, Quentin Fottrell, at the Morrison Hotel in Dublin
context_page_description: Quentin Fottrell is an Irish columnist, author, agony uncle,
  journalist, social diarist and critic. He was the Irish correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal from 2003 to 2011, columnist and feature writer for The Irish Times and is currently working as a journalist in New York City. He was born in Dublin and studied psychology in University College Dublin and journalism in University College Galway.
  Fottrell reported on the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger in Ireland and the expansion of the European Union during Ireland's six-month EU presidency. He currently serves as the personal finance editor for MarketWatch. He writes about spending and investing, and writes an advice column, The Moneyist, in which he answers questions on inheritance, marriage, divorce, tipping, weddings and other tricky money issues.
  Fottrell contributed to magazines and newspapers in Ireland and the U.K., including The Dubliner, wrote a weekly radio review column for The Irish Times and gave advice on relationships on The Ray D'Arcy Show.
context_section_description: Quentin Fottrell is an Irish columnist, author, agony uncle, 
   journalist, social diarist  and critic. He was the Irish correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal from 2003 to 2011, columnist and feature writer for The Irish Times and is currently working as a journalist in New York City. He was born in Dublin and studied psychology in University College Dublin (UCD) and journalism in University College Galway (UCG).
  Fottrell reported on the rise  and fall  of the Celtic Tiger in Ireland and the expansion of the European Union during Ireland's six-month EU presidency. He currently serves as the personal finance editor for MarketWatch. He writes about spending  and investing, and writes an advice column, The Moneyist, in which he answers questions on inheritance, marriage, divorce, tipping, weddings and other tricky money issues.
  Fottrell contributed to magazines and newspapers in Ireland and the U.K., including The Dubliner (magazine), wrote a weekly radio review column for The Irish Times and gave advice on relationships on The Ray D'Arcy Show. He has published a book on relationships in Ireland, titled "Love in a Damp Climate,"  and contributed to several others, including “A Pint and a Haircut,” a collection of true Irish stories. He is openly gay and an advocate of equality for LGBT people.
caption: Quentin Fottrell at the Morrison Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, 2010
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