Without Anne Hickey, there might be much less to see at Newgrange passage tomb in Co Meath, where people will gather today, or go online, to see if the rising sun streams into the inner chamber on the last day of the winter solstice.
As caretaker at Newgrange for 60 years, she kept the vandals, graffiti-scrawlers, and miscreants away from the monument from around 1900 to some time after 1962.
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