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Mon 11 Nov 2008'Scarlet Pimpernel' of the Vatican honoured in his native Killarney
MORE THAN 60 years after he received a CBE for his exploits in the underground movement which saved thousands of Jews, civilians and allied soldiers from the Nazis, Killarney's "Scarlet Pimpernel", Msgr Hugh O'Flaherty was honoured in his native town this weekend.
Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue, who gave the keynote address, said the O'Flaherty family were a special family, and the monsignor, whom he knew as a child, was the greatest person he had ever met.
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