My last column before Christmas is a plum pudding from which I will pluck out some sweet plums and a few bitter almonds.
First plum: the Cork Holly Bough, which carries a fine picture of a relieved and happy Micheál Martin with his family, probably taken after he was finally reunited with them after his long Covid separation.
It also carries my modest piece on the politics of Niall Tóibín, who in New York once reflected that if Jewish comedians could make jokes about the Holocaust, surely we could get over the Famine?
Another fine plum is my annual letter from Tadhg O Leary of Mayfield, Cork, in flying column form this year. He begins as usual with ironic congratulations: I must commend you for your consistence in sullying the names of our Freedom fighters. And he goes on to excoriate the British Empire for its colonial crimes.
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Family of Offaly teenager killed by bomb still seeking justice after nearly 50 years
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17 Dec 2020
RIGHT: Patrick Stanley was only 16 when he was killed in a bomb blast in Belturbet, Co Cavan on December 28, 1972. );
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THE family of a 16-year-old Clara teenager who died in a bomb blast in Belturbet, Co Cavan on December 28, 1972, are still fighting for justice for their brother 47 years later.
An RTE Investigates programme which aired last Monday night told the story of Patrick Stanley who was a helper on a lorry which was in Belturbet that night. Because they were working late the driver and Patrick decided to stay overnight.