Ringing the changes

IT was the 1970s before the first telephone was installed into south Kerry’s Black Valley.

Ringing the changes

It arrived on the same day as electricity. A local man, recently interviewed on radio, spoke of the miracle of standing in his own kitchen in a remote valley on that first day and speaking to his two brothers in America.

It's hard to appreciate now so many years later how momentous that first call was, or how different it all was back then.

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