The committee were suited and booted for their latest meeting but, in the absence of flip-flops and Renault cars, they couldn’t pull the crowds
Why had the limelight forsaken them?
Sabina was the main speaker on the morning but her husband, Michael D Higgins, also took the opportunity to say a few words. Meanwhile, away from the patter of tiny feet to the thud of a weighty hardback landing on lino. President Higgins has launched a second volume of his Machnamh 100 “Centenary Reflections” – a super soaraway bumper compendium of the writings and thoughts of Michael D and a host of leading scholars.
At their annual conference that year, the organisation’s newly elected president, John Egan, caused consternation at government level when he suggested that gardaí would target Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrat TDs in marginal constituencies at the next general election as part of their push to force the government to drop its plans for a part-time reserve.
Here’s McDowell again: “He deserves support. He deserves the support of the Government and he deserves parliamentary support.”Incidentally, McDowell, who is a senior counsel, made an interesting observation further on in his speech when addressing the sinister, threatening and obnoxious behaviour of protesters outside Leinster House two weeks ago.
At their September meeting, members of the Rosslare Municipal District shone a light on this distressing practice, with one councillor revealing that a local company is “beating the sh**e out of mattresses” on a regular basis.
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