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27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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Virgil Sharkey is a prominent voice in the cultural, political and social debate about water. His father was chairman of the Labour Party in Derry when there was such a thing. He spent huge amounts of time trying to reach out to the Protestant community on the simple basis that everybody needed to bury the Hatchet of sectarianism. Virgil: I'm still traumatized and probably spent years in therapy about being taken as an eight, nine year old child to a union meeting with 400 other men who called my dad brother Sharky.

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