On friendship with the late, great human rights lawyer, forged in raucous nights at UCD's L&H debates...For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to The Art of Persuasion: Remembering Conor Gearty, by John O'Donnell above.
If Oxford is the city of dreaming spires, the UCD debating scene in the 1970s was the village of perspiring dreams. I was one of those students squeezed into benches on Thursday and Friday nights at Law Society and L&H debates, lured by cheap wine at the reception beforehand, and the prospect after of a bar, a party, or a trip to the Leeson St hotspots...
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