Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

‘Paddy always likes to know what the story is!’ — Enda Kenny, February 2011

Cometh the Magnificent 77

SATURDAY

Today is the 34th anniversary of the death of my father, who succumbed to a mild heart-attack, in the middle of an election campaign, on June 3rd, 1989, also a Saturday. The weather is exactly as it was that day: glorious sunshine, with not a cloud in the sky. All day it will be as though a ghost of that day, spreading i…