It can be bitter here at times like this,
November wind sweeping across the border.
Its seeds of ice would cut you to the quick.
The whole town tucked up safe and dreaming,
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to Bill Wright: You're probably not Irish, or at least living in Ireland. and are probably unaware what happened in the grotto in Granard on the 31 January 1984 - an event that shocked the nation.
This poem has always haunted me