Samuel Waters served as an officer in the Irish Constabulary in all four provinces. His recollections encompass the Fenian Rising, the Land War and the 1916 insurrection.
Shocking revelations of an official British policy of turning a blind eye to loyalist paramilitary activities in Northern Ireland in the seventies and eighties.
After over forty years in national journalism, the author thought he had seen and heard it all. That was until he got an opportunity to work in government and see how decisions are really made. In this book, he offers an inside account of what it's like be part of a government trying to get to grips with a country and an economy in free-fall.