Obituary: Brendan Cahill

Letters — Published December 2, 2014 | Updated December 2, 2014 at 9:17am

The Link has learned that Brendan Cahill, a staffer on this publication in the mid-1980s, passed away a number of months ago in Toronto. He was 54.

Brendan spent the better part of his time at Concordia in the fourth floor corridor of the Hall Building that once housed The Link, where he served terms as sports and entertainment editor. He was also a member of a staff that won a Rolling Stone College Journalism Award for an investigative series on the athletic department in 1985.

After relocating to Toronto in the mid-1990s, Brendan visited Montreal regularly and on more than one occasion popped by to pick up a current issue.

In October 2012, in town and looking for something to do, he got in touch with the incumbent sports editor, wondering if The Link needed an extra hand over Homecoming Weekend.

We did.

Brendan’s byline appeared on Oct. 8, above coverage of a pair of Stingers basketball games during that year’s Nike Tournament. It had been 25 years since he was last published in The Link.