Ulick Burke (Fine Gael)

I would like to be associated with my colleagues' expressions of sympathy to the families of John M. Mannion and the late Pat Codd.

I served on Galway County Council with John M. Mannion for approximately 25 years. When I was first elected to the council in 1974 I remember well the bunch of heavies who were on it. When one remembers that people like Bobby Molloy, Mark Killalea, John Donnellan and Deputy Michael D. Higgins served on the council with John M. Mannion, one recalls that one had to stay quiet for a long period and serve one's time.