Via Sunday Miscellany, on RTÉ Radio 1: writer Dermot Bolger's tribute to the speech therapists who helped him overcome a stammer...
"I've no idea what my 10-year-old self would make of what I have done with my life. Things have occurred, good and bad, which that shy boy could never have conceived of. Marriage, fatherhood, widowhood. A conventional working life that ending when, aged 24, I began to eke out a living with just the thin sliver of my imagination. He might be surprised, or bemused, by my 15 novels produced since then. But what would truly astonish and astound him is that, here I am, with enough courage to speak on the radio..."
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