Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

He might try, but at least nobody will believe him this time. The lamp posts will be left to the poodles of Ranelagh to do at the base what the Tánaiste is doing today to the alleged standards he defended when he climbed up his ladder.

This tawdry affair exposes a Government utterly divorced from the reality of life of ordinary people,——

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