John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

I have long believed the current crisis had its genesis in the election campaign giveaways of 1977. History recalls that this was a Fianna Fail giveaway. However, if we delve a little deeper into the same period of recent history, we will find that their opponents were offering comparable blandishments to voters in that fateful June 1977 election auction.

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