Billy Magra – also known as Billy McGrath – was always restless. Growing up with a stammer, he says he got used to solving problems in his head. He stayed quiet and mulled things over. He never had any problem with ideas but he says after two years, he was usually ready to move on to the next thing. It doesn’t do justice to what he has done to describe it as a career. Maybe it was a calling, maybe he had a knack of identifying the way Ireland and the world was going and understanding it. “I’ve often said…

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