Spare a thought on these dark but lengthening winter days for my uncle and namesake, Séamus Thornton of Clossagh, Foxford and Glasnevin, Dublin, who passed away last Friday morning. He was 96 years old. Born in 1925, into a farming family of nine boys and two girls, Séamus joined An Garda Síochána in 1944, where he also played his club […]