SAMUEL BECKETT, with whom Fintan O’Toole is compared on this book’s back cover, might conceivably have compressed his era into 57 pages. O’Toole’s occupies 570 and still contains silences, albeit unlike Beckett’s. Eamonn Casey, Larry Goodman, the Catholic Church, child sexual abuse, Fianna Fáil, Charlie Haughey and his Ansbacher accounts are dissected with withering scorn…. Read more »
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