Former Beirut Hostage Thomas Sutherland – A Remembrance - Mark O’Neill

It’s hard to believe but I started writing professionally 28 years ago. Considering I am now 42, it doesn’t take a math genius to work out when I started. Yes I was a spritely young thing when I decided to start banging the keys on the typewriter.

Note to millennials  – a “typewriter” is what was used before computers became mainstream. Look, here’s one –

One of the first places I started writing for, when I was still at school, was the now-defunct “Early Times”. It was a newspaper designe...