The McCarthy story is his invention. The meeting took place in a car; I did reference it in my memoir. The level of hostility was such that I sat in the back with Mac Stiofain and Gerry sat in the front, looking out the front. He avooided face to face contact. I was uncomfortable but did not feel threatened. We went on eventually to set up the Cork Wolfe Tone Society, as a step in the development of broad-based left-political republicanism in the Cork environment. I recollect some good meetings of this. RoyJ
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