Community fights for its future

IT is a background many young men would play down in their sophisticated city lives, but the sons of Rossport, North Mayo, wear their heritage with pride.

Community fights for its future
Wed, 06 Jul, 2005 - 01:00

They are bogmen.

Francis Corduff, 24, stands in the drive of his family home on the edge of Sruwaddacon Bay, surrounded by the black stuff.

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