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‘When I close my eyes at night, I can still see that bird’s horrible, leering face’

6m · Ross O'Carroll-Kelly · 03 Nov 15:41

“Sur! Prise!” we all go.

But the old man – standing at the bottom of the stairs in Shanahan’s on the Green – barely raises a smile.

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