In the right tent, at the right time

All the world’s a stage,

I found myself drawn this week to these lines written by William Shakespeare, while many in the political world rejoiced at the death of former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Go back 28 years to 1983 and you find a very different world — where every Irish cattle farmer waited on news from the meeting in Tripoli of then Taoiseach Charles Haughey with Gaddafi.