FIRST THOUGHTS: An act of solidarity from quintessential Dub Dermot Bolger

FINGLAS native and quintessential Dub, Dermot Bolger, has dedicated his life to literature in both a public and a private manner. 

His passion has been so public and his interventions so dramatic (including, it must be said, 14 stage plays) that he was named as Commentator of the Year at the Irish Newspaper Awards in 2012.

Yet his impulse to comment has always remained faithful to some private, reluctant poetic.