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McKinney recalls his great old pal Fergus

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Proud Irishmen: Fergus Slattery, and, inset left, Stewart McKinney
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FERGUS Slattery never thought twice about going where angels fear to tread. No zone was ever too dangerous, from Canterbury’s savage ambush of the Lions to a terrorist attack after a cross-border club match in Northern Ireland.
Two incidents, half a world and some ten years apart, can be connected as grim theories over the cause and effect of the dementia which destroyed the great Irish flanker’s later life. An old comrade chiseled from the...

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