Sad to see Ben Kiely has gone.
A man who never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
The best memory I have of him was from a Sunday Miscellany about thirty years ago.
In this he described how as a three year old he decided to punish his mother by running away from home and then committing suicide.
To accomplish this he ran to a nearby patch of waste ground and sat down on the wet grass to await his maker. He knew, he had been told enough times, that to do so he would catch his death of cold.
It was a great treat for us all that this took another eighty four years.