As the Sunday World celebrates 50 years Daragh Keany takes us on a trip down memory lane
My very first byline in the Sunday World was back in March 1996 when I was in the newsroom on Work Experience from school. I was 15.
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My very first byline in the Sunday World was back in March 1996 when I was in the newsroom on Work Experience from school. I was 15.
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Former taoiseach was speaking after the launch of The Murderer and the Taoiseach by Irish Times reporter Harry McGee
The easy way to explain Malcolm Macarthur is that the double murderer was predisposed to violence by a traumatic, lonely and abusive upbringing. He was an only child with no cousins and his parents had a violent relationship before they split up. At 16, he was bitten on the hand by his father, leaving a gash that required five stitches. That scar joined the one on his head, where he had been kicked by one of his mother’s mares at the age of four.