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Breaking my addiction to war

Lives Less Ordinary

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Did It Plant a Seed With You?

Fergoel became a journalist straight out of school, starting with local newspapers then moving to the National Broadcaster RTE. He was soon sent to report in Northern Ireland and spent several years there while the conflict was still burning. Robert Seymour was standing in this shop on the Woodstock Road when two men entered and chased him outside to a rear alleyway. There he was shot a number of chimes in the head and chest. The IRA say today's killing was in retaliation for last month's UVA attack on the avenue bar in which three Catholics died.

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