She recalled her father’s struggle for civil rights, taking a stand over the allocation of housing, and how he was an “orator” with a distinctive voice and dramatic delivery at meetings, conferences and on the campaign trail.
“The civil rights movement was the most successful political action in Ireland, and for daddy it was the defining moment.”Leo Varadkar arrives for the funeral of former Fine Gael TD and Northern Ireland civil rights activist Austin Currie. Photograph: Laura Hutton “Daddy reached the great old age of 82 and he died peacefully in his own bed – if you’d said that to him at the age of 30, he would never have believed you,” she said.
“At every occasion he could, Daddy would call on the people who took Columba away, to do the decent thing, the Christian thing, of allowing him home to be buried with his family.
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