Peter Sutherland was “possibly the most influential Irish person ever to have lived”, says this book, a smidge hyperbolically but with some justification. However, as it doesn’t pause to observe, he was never elected by anyone anywhere – unlike ‘influencers’ such as Dev, Mary Robinson and Gerry Adams. He didn’t leverage his influence from mass-culture,… Read more »
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