Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

As Deputy for Dublin South-West, I would like to be associated with the kind words said about the late Larry McMahon. He was a wonderful man, who was not partisan in his approach. He and the late Sean Walsh worked tirelessly for the Tallaght area at a time when the area was growing and going through its growing pains as a community and constituency. He worked in a non-partisan way with the late Sean Walsh. They both more or less operated a tag team approach to all sorts of issues, local and otherwise, which worked very well for the people of Tallaght as that community grew in strength.

I express my sympathy to his family. He was a man of great religious faith and strength of purpose. I remember being on a parliamentary visit to Jerusalem with him. It was clear that it was a marvellous journey for a man of his faith, and marvellous for him to see the centre of his Christian worship and the many biblical sites which we visited that Easter time. It was lovely to see it. Despite his religious faith, he was a deeply amusing and humorous man. He was not afraid to have a go or have a crack at people on any basis, so he was great company and a real gentleman.

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