These Fianna Fáilers think they are some kind of Gaelic chiefs. Little has changed since the Haughey days, but the day of reckoning is coming. I think satire gives the nation a lift and I don't think any politician in any party has any special privilege to be exempted.

This guy [who hung up paintings of Taoiseach Brian Cowen in the National Gallery and the RHA] is a heroic modern day Hogart exposing politics, warts and all (so to speak). How dare Fianna Fáil attempt to muzzle the national media. Are these guys so out of touch after so many years in office? Respect for the office of Taoiseach indeed – it was Ahern and Haughey that cheapened Irish politics and the office of Taoiseach!

Niall O'Brien,

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