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Kevin C Kearns: Lugs Branigan [2015] paperback CHMER Edinburgh and St AndrewsBorn in the Liberties of Dublin in 1910, Jim Branigan was, by his own admission, a shy, scrawny "sissy" as a lad. Cruelly beaten by bullies in the railway yard where he worked during his teens, he refused to fight back. Yet he went on to become a heavyweight boxing champion and to earn the "undisputed reputation as the country's toughest and bravest garda". Refusing to carry a baton and relying upon his fists instead, he dealt with Dublin's array of