Some years later, one day, soon after Eamon's release from Long Kesh, Iggy Davin summonsed him to a meeting in a safe house, just the two of them. Where he told him they had located Hugh. Eamon can remember the disgust on Davin's face as he told him about Hugh, how he was living on a Greek island with an Englishman. 'Did you know,' Davin snarled, 'that your Golden Boy was a bloody queer? That he is living with another fucking queer? Can you imagine how the British press will play that if it ever gets out?'
        Then Davin gave Eamon all the ins and outs, retracing the recent history of the Movement in London and in particular the career of Michel Donnellan, the long time Officer Commanding the London Brigade. He told him where Hugh was and he ordered Eamon to get him back. They intended to make a video of Hugh appearing unannounced at an Irish club run by Donnellan, where he would make a defiant appearance before slipping away again. Except that Davin did not want him to escape the second time. Hugh was to flush out Donnellan, who according to Davin was a long time informer for the British.
        'You remember the end? When Hugh O'Neill escaped from the club in London?' Eamon says.
        'Of course I fucking do,' Mary says savagely. 'I was standing at the side of the stage ready to escort him back to the safe flat to await instructions, when two of Donnellan's thugs grabbed me and locked me in a room. It was only with the arrival of the cleaners after the club closed for the evening that I got out. By then Hugh was long gone.'
        'As was Fintan Flaherty until he blew himself up with the Englishman, Hugh's gay friend. “The love that dare not speak its name”, as Davin mockingly called it – you know how uncomfortable Davin is about sex – when he told me Hugh was gay.' They reach the end of the path, turn around to retrace their steps. 'We reckon Hugh and he were about to meet up when Flaherty spotted them and he fought Flaherty while Hugh escaped and then Flaherty blew them up.'
        'Did you arrange for Flaherty to carry a bomb?'
        'No. We think that was Donnellan, that he wanted to create a diversion if things went wrong. He was no great fan of Flaherty's.'
        'Well he wasn't alone there. Nobody had any time for him. We never understood why you picked him.'
        Eamon sighs wearily. 'Because at the time he was about the only one who was so far out of the loop, nobody would recognise him. I needed somebody like that. You were both unknown, as far as we could tell. I wanted you, but I had to use him with you – he was all I had.'
        'Like we are now,' Mary says sharply.
        'Yes.'
        'What happened to Hugh?'

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