The Boy Who Survived – March 28th, 2024

Maurice Heffernan was born in Ballylongford in 1945. When his mother died before Maurice turned one, he was taken into an orphanage in Killarney. He was then sent to a foster family in West Kerry and was later sent to St Joseph’s Industrial School in Tralee. Maurice became a detective garda sergeant and investigated many cases, including the gangland murder of journalist Veronica Guerin in 1996. He has written his memoirs, “Once There Was a Boy Who Survived.”