tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21661313.post394121534439256265..comments2024-01-23T10:52:07.009+00:00Comments on Hunting Monsters: Remembering Conor Cruise O'Brienianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09958839106380353855noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21661313.post-45668685140337875092008-12-23T21:26:00.000+00:002008-12-23T21:26:00.000+00:00As Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder have said, the...As Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder have said, there is good and bad in everyone. I've started wondering if maybe CCOB's ludicrous over-achieving is partly down to the past being weird. I mean, how did he get to be editor of the Observer? Why did someone thing it would be a great idea to get in a one term politician and former civil servant to edit a prestigious national newspaper?ianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09958839106380353855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21661313.post-76285187141993416122008-12-22T12:54:00.000+00:002008-12-22T12:54:00.000+00:00nihil de mortibus sed bonum dixi..An intellectuall...nihil de mortibus sed bonum dixi..<BR/>An intellectually rigorous iconoclast, he was many things but never ignored. His mistaken status as a "professional troublemaker" was a lazy label from crass commentators. The 0bserver, in a could-have-done-better appreciation remembered its former editor on page 20. Unlike many, his political career did not end in failure but, in frustration. Whatever his faults he was a human being of conviction who could admit when he was wrong, and when unable to do so, he could persuade with almost unassailable reason that whatever his error, at least there was merit to his position. a man of principle who will be missed by his family. Our sympathies go to his family.<BR/>"The evil that men do lives after them: the good is oft interred with their bones; so let it be with".. Cruiser.<BR/>a dheis De go mbeadh a anam..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21661313.post-22621391595622242362008-12-22T07:44:00.000+00:002008-12-22T07:44:00.000+00:00I met him when he was one of the elected represent...I met him when he was one of the elected representatives of Bob McCartney's UK Unionist Party at the Stormont talks in 1996!Nicholas Whytehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13065102837531945315noreply@blogger.com