Six Nations 2015: Paul O'Connell's incredible journey from stacking shelves to 100 Ireland caps
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Six Nations 2015: Paul O'Connell's incredible journey from stacking shelves to 100 Ireland caps
Limerick evokes an unmistakeable sense of remoteness.
To reach the city by train from Dublin, one must alight at a faceless junction stop in the midst of a peaty wilderness and then take a single-track railway that offers no swifter passage than during the Vikings’ day.
Frank McCourt, the novelist who endured particularly acute privations as a child here, could not wait to escape the place.
“In Limerick you are only allowed to say you love God, and babies, and horses that win,” his narrator writes in Angela’s Ashes.
“Anything else is softness in the head.
” Well, this is not quite …
To reach the city by train from Dublin, one must alight at a faceless junction stop in the midst of a peaty wilderness and then take a single-track railway that offers no swifter passage than during the Vikings’ day.
Frank McCourt, the novelist who endured particularly acute privations as a child here, could not wait to escape the place.
“In Limerick you are only allowed to say you love God, and babies, and horses that win,” his narrator writes in Angela’s Ashes.
“Anything else is softness in the head.
” Well, this is not quite …
