Jennifer Horgan: We should be looking closer to home for heroes like the late Don O'Leary

Everyday heroes are all around us — look at Cork's longest serving librarian James Wilkinson, or the late Don O'Leary, who changed so many children's lives 

Don O'Leary of the Cork Life Centre was an everyday hero who dedicated his life to marginalised young people.

The song might say we don’t need another hero, but it turns out we do.

Sure, we can’t even gather a handful of qualified candidates for our presidential race. When someone as terrifyingly backward as Maria Steen calls for the whole thing to be scrapped, simply because she’s not in it, we know we’re in trouble.