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Fri 02 Feb 2009Cowen fills our need for strong father figure
Cowen is the first since Lemass to offer the old sort of fatherhood, the sober, teaching kind
IT GOES without saying that the Taoiseach’s speech was not “unscripted”. The idea that this is why it caught the national imagination amounts to such a ridiculous reduction that, to paraphrase Cowen, I wonder if we deserved the speech in the first place.
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