It’s 12 months since the passing of William Hughes. With regard to ‘The Bomber’, it’s a case of ‘gone but not forgotten’ for a man who went to some dark places, but who, ultimately, turned things around and dedicated himself completely to his native Fermoy – the town he loved so well.
These ‘dark places’ centred around addiction, an addiction that threatened to bring him to an early grave. The fact that he, in biblical terms, saw the light and emerged from the darkness, is testament to the determination he had to leave the bottle behind and start a new life of community activism.
Addressing those who attended last Saturday’s unveiling of a plaque in William’s memory by the banks of the Blackwater, Cllr Peter O’Donoghue referenced the fact that during this intense period of community and political activism, ‘William was always doing something’.
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