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Today is St Patrick’s Day, a day when the Irish celebrate (and just keep on celebrating) all over the world.
It’s also the birthday of Colleen (how well named she was) Morgan (ok then with a Welsh twist), The Moodie Report’s Rhodes-based Special Correspondent and a friend for over four decades.
And, not least, it is the day that one of the very best men in the travel retail community goes under the surgeon’s knife for a long operation that will rid his body of the bully that is cancer. His many, many friends in the industry know who I am talking about. He, a man who stood by me during my own battle with this damned disease, he who will walk through this storm. And he who will never walk alone.
So today I shall raise a glass or two of the dark stuff to all the many great Irishmen and women in travel retail, past and present. I shall also raise one to my Dublin-born Ma (rest in peace Mary Madeline Sophia O’Neill), to our own Irish Colleen and, most of all, to the big man himself.
hear hear Martin, we will be lighting candles and raising our glasses to the big man, from Singapore with love