In a packed student restaurant in UCC way back in 1981, a nervous young Micheál Martin rose to deliver his first ever political speech.
The meeting had been called to discuss the hunger strikes which were taking place in Belfast’s Maze Prison at the time and which had convulsed the entire island.
About 600 or 700 people had squeezed into the restaurant with most of them demanding that the Irish government take...
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