Paul Rouse: A man of contradictions and depth, Micko was an original

It is not so much that they broke the mould when they made Mick O’Dwyer; it’s that he broke the mould himself, again and again.

GOOD COMPANY: “There are times when I want to be alone,” Mick O'Dwyer said. Pic: Don MacMonagle

Of all the hundreds of thousands of words that have been devoted, or related, to the deeds of O’Dwyer, the most brilliant lie in the book written by Owen McCrohan in 1990: ‘Mick O’Dwyer: The Authorised Biography’.

It is a work of great insight; indeed, it is not too much to say that it is a work of art.