As part of the acknowledgements to the book, Norton thanks "all the people who stayed in Ireland to fight for the modern tolerant place it has become. I took the easy way out and left..." Does he really think that was the easy way out? You know it's not a choice, you know it's not something you did, but you feel like you're less than. "Not harder to talk to," he says with a laugh, "harder to listen to…" There are still, he says, "the good ones" where "you think 'you're great. "I don't think I said in the book I had a breakdown," he says.

Source: Irish Independent September 27, 2020 01:33 UTC