Daniel McConnell: How Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera went from friends to rivals

The relationship between Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera was fraught long before the Civil War started. Political Editor Daniel McConnell writes of how the pair went from friends and comrades, to political rivals

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