At 16, Rodney Edwards scooped the international press for the first time from his childhood bedroom in Enniskillen. It was Christmas time 2005, the Iraq war was raging and Farris Hassan, a young American student the same age as Edwards, had headed to Iraq to help people there. By the end of December, he’d been picked up by the US army and sent back home to Florida. There was a “whole global stir about him,” Edwards told me. “Jay Leno was after him, and Oprah and all this. And there I was in my room in Enniskillen, in the middle…

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