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# I Am Tonie Walsh

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'I'll never forget it': Activist Tonie Walsh looks back on the fire that destroyed Ireland's first gay community centre

“It had a side alley to Dame Street which made it comfortably covert for those still in the closet who’d rock up to the building,” says Walsh.

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Oct 28th 2018, 10:00 PM