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Farewell to colleague Rory O'Connor by Joe Mulholland former head of RTÉ News..
Farewell to Rory – by Colleague Joe Mulholland at Rory’s Funeral on June 12th 2013
The Late Rory O'Connor
( Photo Courtesy RTÉ Library)
When Roderick asked me to say a few words at his Dad’s funeral I was pleased and honoured and one of the first things I did was to look for my copy of Rory’s book, Gander at the Gate, which I had launched for him in the year 2000 in one of the RTE radio studios. Naturally, the work being autobiographical, it had so much of Rory in it that we hardly if ever saw in the man, for behind the colourful and rumbustious character we knew and loved there was another Rory - behind the mask. Just as he had said about his Father, Seamus, whom he admired and adored and I quote: ”I was not very old when I began to realize that inside the austerity of demeanour was a heart and a mind concerned with the injustice of the world and angry with the plight of the downtrodden” there was inside Rory’s somewhat gruff demeanour a sensitive, caring and compassionate man with a fine intellect and a profound sensitivity who thought deeply about life and the meaning of life.
He was much influenced by his parents,
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Rory and Elizabeth
Every rainbow must have its end, and after week upon week of glittering gay couples fizzing off the screen (?) and testing even the most liberal Guardian readers’ tolerance, we’re back to marvellous monochrome this week, with a straight pairing on the Blind Date column. Fabulousness cannot last, it’s not sustainable. It is mascara, your keys, your underwear – it never ends the night where it started. So all those who worried that gay people were being overrepresented in the column can now breathe easy; we’re now back to your default. Just as it should be.
Thankfully they look like nice people who would probably get off with each other in the right light if something by, oh I don’t know, Elkie Brooks or Bruce Springsteen was playing in the background. Meet Rory, a 31-year-old nutrition student, and Elizabeth, 26, a music PR. Click on the image to read the actual date before I pull up a chair and repeat the last syllable of everything they say to each other, like a child tormenting his babysitter.
I zoomed over to the restaurant’s website. It’s in Belgravia.
Not very informal. Sorry Rory (try saying that after a double gin and tonic and with a mouthful of Haribo).
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