There is delicious defiance in the location of Dónal de Róiste's home. He lives on Military Hill in Cork, opposite Collins Barracks, in a house originally built for British soldiers. Here in this two-up two-down of snooping shafts of sunlight, as he waited and worried and wearied in his quest to clear his name, the 77-year-old commissioned officer has revisited in his memory, over and over, the day nearly 54 years ago that his life turned into Ireland's version of the Dreyfus affair.It concluded, at last, this week when the State formally apologised to him and agreed to pay him compensation after a review of his case declared 'it is difficult to envisage how greater damage could be caused to the good name of an officer of the Defence Forces' than what happened to him when he was compulsorily retired from the Army by then president Éamon de Valera.

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