Dermot Collins awarded Cork Person of the Month for his efforts to remember Michael Collins’s legacy
“I remember reading an interview with Brian Lenihan years later when he was asked by commentator, the late Noel Whelan, what were the highlights of his career, and he said being asked to speak at Béal na Bláth – that was a real sign of the reconciliation and healing we were hoping for.
A native of Kinsale, Dermot inherited his admiration for Michael Collins from his late father, Jerry, and he recalled going to Béal na Bláth with is father and his mother, Babs, as a youngster 70 years ago, planting the seeds of an involvement which has now earned him a Cork Person of the Month award.
Dermot stepped down as chair of the Béal na Bláth Commemoration Committee in 2017 after 15 years in the role, while he had earlier spent five years as secretary and now an ordinary committee member again. Mr Kelleher said it was people like Dermot and other committee members over the years that helped build the event into the huge national occasion it has become.
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