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Dr Garret Fitzgerald has passed away

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  • #52
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    True gentleman and I always remember him being on Question Time on the BBC, must have been around the time of the divorce referendum in 95 as they asked him about it.

    He said something along the lines of "as a romantic I don't believe in divorce, but as a realist divorce should be a reality". Reminds me of my Dad, a FF supporter but who liked and respected Garret, a gentleman recognising another.

    Wouldn't have been a supporter of his at the time but Ireland could do with another reforming agenda of his time, I don't think we'll get it as it's all spin and market research these days.

    RIP, you definitely did the state some service.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #53
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,380 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    I like how Garret went to see Charlie Haughey in the weeks before Haughey died. I also like the stories where people talked about his huge intellect, but that he was humble and saw it as gift to inform and enlighten people rather than a weapon to diminish and belittle others as some intellectuals are fond of doing. It seems he did not merely stuff his cabinet with people whom he liked and shared the same worldview. That's one of the hallmarks of a true leader in my opinion. He'll have many people at his funeral who didn't share his political outlook, but who will want to be there out of respect and admiration for who he was a person. In the end that's the most important thing.


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