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Fri 12 Dec 2009Stag hunt ban is green ignorance gone rabid
OPINION:A demoralised Fianna Fáil shows no appetite to resist its minnow bedfellows on the issue, writes KEVIN O'CONNOR
WHEN I “returned” to this country in the early 70s, I had reason to ponder what made us different. So much that greeted me was ramshackle, from dysfunctional public services to Amish roads to the tragicomedy of a Dáil that seemed, in every sense, to have dumped on the revolutionaries who created it. A day there and one realised that mediocrity ruled. (Of course it did – the best and brightest had gone abroad for generations, leaving the sinking ship to the rats.)
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