Danger lurks everywhere in the strange world of Michael McDowell

“A CROWD of us were going along the Shepherd’s Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home,” Michael Collins once recalled.

"He came out quite suddenly and abruptly and we all cheered him.

"Nobody who has not been in exile will understand me, but I stand for that."