give his life a beautifully human context. Eoghan, a former advertising executive and Labour Party backroom worker, says, “I have to explain to you that my mother knew Mick [Michael] Collins ...

Michael Collins was the command module pilot ... "I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life," Collins once told NASA of his time alone in the spacecraft.

All told, Michael Collins had an amazing ride through life, from West Point to test pilot to the Gemini program and eventually to the Moon and back. His footprints may not be on the Moon ...

As we approach the 100-year commemoration of the death of Michael ... on the boat home across the Irish Sea. A sing-song session: He was not known for his fine singing voice but, Collins did ...