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Date Posted: 20:18:35 07/02/09 Thu
Author: Carla
Subject: Chapter Nine: The Games People Play”

A boxing trainer and his boxer in Belfast.


Pat invites Casey for a pick-up games of rugby (at least I think that's what they were playing) and proceeds to knock the shite out of him on the field. Casey finally decides he's had enough and the two brothers go at it tooth and nail while the others players stay out of the way. At first it appears Pat's rage is about Devlin calling on Casey at the concert, meaning Casey is still tangled up in IRA business. Once the brothers have made up, though, Pat tells Casey he will kill him if he breaks Pamela's heart.

We see Reverend Broughton again, this time in a boxing gym where he's thoroughly destroyed his sparing partner and sent a chill down the spine of the gym's crusty manager Dannyboy Kilmorgan. When Dannyboy realises the nasty creature is running for public office and will win be default, Dannyboy goes to talk to our Jamie, whom he'd taught to box. In ways ranging from subtle to smack-up-side-the-head, he encourages Jamie to run in his father's old riding. In the course of the conversation, Pamela comes in and Jamie's face betrays a "naked yearning" for her which only Dannyboy glimpses.

Jamie learns Casey brought Pamela home in the early morning and Maggie tells him Casey means business.

Pamela reflects on what she knows of her mother -- as told through her father's rose-coloured memory. She also thinks that Jamie, like her mother, is too beautiful and fragile to be held, that he is pain without warmth. With Casey, however, she felt that warmth.

Should Jamie run for office? How much sacrifice is needed from one person before it's too much?

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