In Down The Tunnels a sidelined, former policeman relives his famous role in the 'big case' when an innocent man was framed for his part in an audacious robbery. In But Your Mother a protester is forced to recognize that his actions will have negative consequences for his ailing mother. In Do You Like Oranges? a youth endures a mock execution. In the bleak eighties in Ireland political dissent is rife and the Gardaí have resorted to 'heavy methods'. The characters in all these stories are living with the consequences
Do You Like Oranges? (Ian St James International Short Story Award 1998). Published in Pulse Fiction (London, 1998) and Snapshots (London, 1999). Down The Tunnels published in The Cúirt Journal 7 (Galway, 1999). But Your Mother published in Stinging Fly (Dublin, 1999).
