Shane Ross (Independent)

It was many years ago. He asked what they were like and I told him I would take him to one. We went to a night-club in Baggot Street or Leeson Street and I never saw a man's eyes pop out of his head so obviously as Pat Joe's. He was fascinated. It was a world to which he was not accustomed and we left at a very early stage. Nevertheless, he told the story afterwards and repeated many times in Ballinamore that he had once been to a Dublin night-club and that it was not a place to which he particularly wanted to return.

He was a wonderful man with a great sense of humour and innocence. I join with everyone else in this House in expressing my sympathies to his son Gerry, his wife Tess and his entire family.