50 years ago this week, on October 30, 1963, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty died in Caherciveen. What few realised at the time - and, sadly since, is that O'Flaherty was a genuine hero of World War II. He was the Irish Oskar Schindler, risking his life to save the lives of 6500 POWs, Jews and other enemies of the Nazis. Fionn Davenport tells his story.
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