‘I have touched positively every home of every parish’

ADJUSTING the collar of his heavy wool overcoat to shield his ears from a biting February breeze, John O’Donoghue strode purposefully through the near deserted streets of the mid Kerry village of Miltown and made an immediate beeline for O’Shea’s pub.

‘I have touched positively every home of every parish’

By a blazing log fire inside it was, by comparison, a hive of activity with a small huddle of astute observers of life, in peaked caps and well-worn anoraks, holding court at the counter on what they insisted was a deserved early lunch break from the regular Tuesday sheep sale at Miltown Mart.

Chuffed to accept their local TD’s generous offer of a tipple, the mood was light and the banter was lively as they swung their stools around to engage with the man from Caherciveen.

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