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I am not one bit ashamed to cry
Sir, – I thoroughly enjoyed Joe Humphreys’s column . I am not one bit ashamed to cry.
I started crying the day I was born and haven’t stopped since. I cried my eyes out the night my first child arrived safely into the world and cried again when my other three were born. I wept openly in the Phoenix Park the day Pope John Paul II arrived.
I cried when Obama was elected the first black president of the United States , and I cried when Donald Trump was elected president for the second time – but for different reasons. Music always makes me cry, not least Big Tom’s rendition of Gentle Mother, which always leaves me in tears. I cry when Kilkenny lose an All-Ireland final, and I cry when they win one.
Recently I cried when Katie Taylor beat Flora Pili in Croke Park and when Shane Lowry won the Irish Open. I almost cried the night when, as a student, I lost a small fortune playing poker – but didn’t. Some things a man’s gotta take on the chin. – Yours, etc, GERRY MORAN, Co Kilkenny.
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