Champion of the underprivileged who engaged in a little dog-baiting

ON October 22, 1962, when President John F Kennedy made his famous speech announcing the blockade of Cuba to prevent the delivery of Soviet missiles, the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war.

Next morning Deputy Noel Browne, leader of the National Progressive Democratic Party, called at the US Embassy to protest against the US president's actions.

That evening Dr Browne led a march, which set the early scene for trendy anti- American protests. According to Browne, they "marched up Kildare Street, around St Stephen's Green, down Grafton Street, along Nassau Street toward Merrion Square" where the US embassy was then located not in Ballsbridge as he mistakenly wrote.