Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

I found it over Easter in an old song, over 100 years old, by Percy French, and appropriately it is called "Phil the Fluter's Ball". Phil the fluter, instead of Phil the Minister, did not go around intimidating his neighbours. He invited them into his house to play the flute and fiddle for them and then passed the cap around. The Government might be better off asking Deputy Healy-Rae to send his cap around this House. He also played "The Hare in the Corn" on his flute.

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