Award-winning press photographer Peter Thursfield, a well-respected figure on the Irish media scene who captured numerous moments in history, has died at the age of 77.
I was barely nine years old when I embarked on my first solo outing. One mid-summer’s Sunday afternoon, for whatever reason, I was overcome with a hankering to see my Granny, Roseanne. She lived at Creesil farm, six miles away outside Monaghan town.