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Tue 10 Oct 2009Do not ditch Seanad but finesse it as a political dynamo
Any debate about the Seanad must focus on how it forged the original Republic. Revamped, it can be potent again, writes ELAINE BYRNE
‘I CONSIDER that a country which has reached that stage of degradation, not to speak of a party that is prepared to submit to be dragooned . . . which submits to the public humiliation of being dragooned by one individual who masquerades as a democratic leader, speaks ill of democratic institutions.” James Dillon, future leader of Fine Gael, never did mince his words.
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