Heartfelt thanks to Selina Walker, Sheila Crowley, Lisanne Radice, Colm MacGinty, Neil Leslie, Cathy Kelly, Sarah Hamilton, Eoin McHugh, Madeline Toy, Lauren Hadden, Vanessa O’Loughlin, Professor Marie Cassidy, Stephen Mulcahy, Declan Heeney, Helen Gleed O’Connor, Siobhan Carmody Collins, the garda contacts I can’t name – you know who you are – and all my pals in the
Sunday World
.
As for my family – especially my husband, Brian, and parents, Eamonn and Sheila – there’d have been no book without all the support and encouragement.
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