This was the photo that started it. Chris Burns, our previous senior journalist who has now followed Paddington Bear into deepest darkest Peru, was fond of getting in fashions on the field at the races in Mount Isa.
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There was no denying he was a dapper chap, good enough for Manhunt Australia’s National Finals, except here at the St Patrick’s Day meet he suffered an Irish curse (no idea which Irishman might have been cursing at him, cough, cough..) and ended up with a withered left arm.
Fellow North West Star journalist Esther MacIntyre was there to capture the moment, where the guy in the same coloured shirt behind him donated his arm in the name of a great illusion. An idea was born and so we begin.
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
