Watching his own life unfold, at home over a cup of tea
It was seeing Maurice McCabe’s sheer ordinariness - as portrayed in last week’s RTÉ documentary - that allowed us to grasp the extraordinary nature of his courage
The RTÉ documentary Whistleblower was extraordinary television because of the ordinariness of the two main protagonists.
It was easy to relate to Maurice and Lorraine McCabe, a husband and wife raising five children outside the village of Mountnugent in rural Cavan. There was the gathering of family and friends at Michael McCabe’s 90th birthday, soundtracked in part by Brendan Shine’s Do You Want Your Old Lobby Washed Down.
There was Lorraine at the ...
