http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2008/12/conor_cruise_obrien.html en-gb 30 Sat 19 Dec 2009 17:37:00 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2008/12/conor_cruise_obrien.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2008/12/conor_cruise_obrien.html?page=0#comment0 A man of great intellectual power and moral courage. Needless to say, he was frequently vilified by his fellow Irishmen. If, as Orwell said, freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear, then 'the Cruiser' paid a high price for his persistent habit of challenging received opinions. Sat 20 Dec 2008 14:43:14 GMT+1