MICHAEL COLLINS would have empathised with the bravery and courage of the late Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan who delivered the oration at the Béal na mBláth commemoration just months before his death, the founding president of the University of Limerick, Dr Edward Walsh, told attendees at this year’s ceremony in West Cork yesterday.

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