Sir, As a supporter of Fine Gael for over forty years, I nearly had a stroke when I heard about the Lowry affair. Then I calmed down and began to reflect that, after all, isn't this what Irish politics is all about strokes?
It is often said that we are a nation of begrudgers. But begrudgery comes a poor second to the admiration we all have for those engaged in all sorts of deals, who appear to get away with them.
If those interviewed from the TD's constituency in Tipperary on Morning Ireland and the reception he received when he returned home are an example, then he has nothing to worry about being reelected. Indeed there is every likelihood he could be the next Taoiseach! - Yours, etc.,
Hazelbrook Road,
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Dublin 6W.