Light on a lonely rock

[Tchocky]

As Mr O’Reilly kicks hard to open the heavy steel doors on arrival at the lighthouse, he notes that they swing inwards. When Douglass designed them, and Kavanagh built them, they were never made to be opened from outside, because it was not envisaged that the lighthouse would be unmanned. Mr O’Driscoll refers to those doors in his letter* (http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12792727#footnote1) to the Cork Examiner in April 1989 when he last left the lighthouse. “The closing is a very poignant moment, as these large gun-metal doors crash into place behind me for the last time, sealed like a tomb.” Once again, An Charraig Aonair was alone.

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12792727

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Great story :)