By Norbert McDermott His reputation went before him. I heard and/or read a lot about him and his accomplishments before I met him. Then it all made sense. Right away one felt a steely calmness, gentleness, with an underlying determination.… Continue Reading
My Dad was Mattie, the youngest boy in a family of five siblings, he left school at 12 years of age, so had little education but he was (and hence we were) one of those fortunate ones who picked up… Continue Reading
By Norbert McDermott I was prompted to “put pen to paper,” as my dear mother would say, when I bumped into one Jane Duffin a few months ago – whom, despite me being a month-in month-out reader of the Irish… Continue Reading