I will always remember the voice of the late and much-loved Gerry O’Brien – RTÉ’s lighting man in Belfast – coming in fragments over the radio. Gerry O’Brien had found Anne and told her: “Your man is mad with worry.” She called to say she was safe. Anne was present in Andersonstown a few days later in the aftermath of the killings of corporals Howes and Wood. Older hands such as Gerry O’Brien told me the atmosphere took them back to the bad days of the early 1970s. It was not the horror but rather the decency that survived in spite of it all.

Source: The Irish Times March 19, 2018 06:00 UTC