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Via The TranscriptsAdrian Flannelly caught up with Tom DiNapoli as he returned from a trip to Ireland. Mr. DiNapoli is the Comptroller of New York State and as such controls and directs the fourth largest governmental budget in the United States.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
