Speech throughout Belfast go to carried a lot gravitas coming from inspiration like him
I had a lump in my throat final week as I listened to my tape of the late Dublin broadcaster Charlie Bird telling a Belfast perform which I used to be internet hosting two years in the past that his dying want can be to see a long-lasting peace in Ireland.
The 74-year-old retired RTE journalist, who had been identified with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) 5 months earlier, had come north of the border to launch the guide Reporting the Troubles 2, a second anthology of 70 tales in regards to the battle right here from British and Irish journalists that I compiled with Deric Henderson.