Seanad debates
Wednesday, 10 March 2004
Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion.
5:00 am
Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)
The historian in me cannot help but observe the irony that a century or two ago, Trinity College proved to have the overwhelming number of placemen, apart from those who were brought from across the water. As the Duke of Wellington once observed when he was young, every gentleman in Ireland had his price.
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