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Tue 01 Jan 2010A true public servant whose political career was too brief

TRIBUTE:Justin Keating was an able minister and a man of great warmth, writes GARRET FITZGERALD

JUSTIN KEATING was a polymath: a veterinarian and farmer; university lecturer; brilliant television producer, political theorist and hard-working government minister.