Sat 10 May 2008
(1940-2008)
Nuala O’Faolain has died at the tender age of 68.
She was a wonderful woman, an exceptional writer and an award winning producer. I read her recent reports from the Primaries in the Tribune with absolute trust in her reporting. She was before her time, a real stoical and strong woman, who pushed societal boundaries by her very existence, in both expressing her sexuality, and in her eloquent, yet heart rendering experience of dying only last month with Marian Finucane.
She didn’t have to talk about it, but she chose to, to teach us all something from the other side of the fence. As she did in life, she did in death.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam uasal.
