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The Kelleher Brothers – Dingle, County Kerry
A meeting with Timmy Kelleher (1925-2021), farmer, and his younger brother, Stevie Kelleher (1930-2014), a hackney driver. To get around the challenge of the drink-driving clampdown, they bought a townhouse near their favourite pub in Dingle so they could stay in town on drinking nights. Neither of them married. ‘And thanks be to Christ for that’, they say in unison. ‘We wouldn’t be as happy as we are now. We can do what we like and go where we like and no one will say a word’.