Haunting image of a care-worn woman overshadows all

The sun shone on my journey from Cork to Skibbereen recently. May blossomed in the hedgerows.

I am sure it was Alice Taylor that stood in a flower-filled doorway in Innishannon.

Rachel and Liadh, occasionally joined by Mary Lou, lips glossed smiled from every second lampost. The new media-savvy Sinn Féin set to sweep all before it, buoyed high by the waves of our disillusion.