Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

-----on the basis that it might be politically disastrous to his party.

We accept that was a mistake. However, such omissions and errors are not the sole preserve of Fine Gael. It is not so long ago that Sinn Féin in the person of Deputy Arthur Morgan was denying that suspected paedophile, Liam Adams, was a member of the Sinn Féin Party in Louth-----

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