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Sat 03 Mar 2010Decades ahead of his time
BIOGRAPHY: IVANA BACIKreviews Crummey v IrelandBy Frank Crummey Londubh Books, 222pp. €14.99
WE NEED MORE Frank Crummeys; independent thinkers and courageous fighters, men and women willing to challenge the status quo. Born in 1936 and reared on Kilfenora Road in Kimmage, Dublin, Frank Crummey has always been decades ahead of his time. He may have held down a succession of diverse and unlikely occupational posts – soldier, bus driver, postman, social worker, builder and private investigator – before becoming a legal executive, but his active campaigning life has been his real career.
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