Laurie Shaw’s Scouse brogue intact after years in Kerry
His time in Kilgarvan allows Laurie Shaw put a unique spin on events in the UK, writes
Thanks to the neither shy nor retiring local political dynasty, the south Kerry town of Kilgarvan will always find itself associated with a particularly pronounced rural accent. Even so, the years spent there have done nothing to supplant Laurie Shaw’s Scouse brogue and verbal tics, forged in the first ten-years of his life in Wirral in Merseyside. Could this refusal to yield his native traits be an act of defiance?
