When Chris Moore launched his new book, he told the guests who had gathered there that it might have taken some of them a couple of hours to get there, it had taken him 45 years. It might even have been a little longer. Chris Moore’s first day at the BBC was August 27, 1979. It was a Bank Holiday Monday, and he was told to start work on the Tuesday instead.  So Moore took his family for a picnic in the Mourne Mountains. While there, they heard some explosive sounds which they thought were coming from a quarry. They…

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