THE furore over Jackie Healy-Rae, his progeny Michael and the RTE reality show sends out egregious signals about our democracy.
To have this Laurel and Hardy outfit and their idiotic carry-on saturating the front pages and the internet, while attempts are being made to get the EU/IMF to treat us more civilly, is beyond comprehension. That one person could make, or cause to be made, the vast majority of the 3,636 phone calls to a reality TV show over a few days questions their emotional well-being and their sense of reality.
The people involved in this puerility, and the foremost beneficiary, should explain why we should view them as anything other than fools.
Just as people will be judged by the company they keep, so rests a nation's good name upon those who get elected to its parliament.
And if Enda Kenny or Michael Noonan gets further short shrift in Europe, we may surmise that their Dail Eireann associates might be muddying the waters.
DESMOND O'REILLY, Cork.
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Laurel and Hardy antics: Jackie Healy-Rae and his son Michael out riding in South Kerry
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