Billy Keane: Our loved ones will never be gone, so long as we say their names and tell their stories

The mystery dog is back after nearly three decades. He’s about 140 in dog years but like many dogs, no one knows for sure when he was born. I know it’s him even though he is dead, or was.

The dog returned on Wednesday, which I am told is the true date of Samhain – the Celtic festival of the dead – November 6. Many experts reckon we suffer Halloween on the wrong day. It is also the day I am writing this.



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