Now, as we approach the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that began the liberation of Europe from Nazi control, let us praise an obscure woman.
Her name was Maureen Sweeney, and she went to her grave at age 100 just six months ago – her heroics noted by few, her legacy the small but indispensable contribution she made to the Allied war effort from a lighthouse on Blacksod Point in Ireland’s C…