Garret FitzGerald will be remembered best for his massive contribution to public life in Ireland over the past 50 years, writes John Downing

“WHEN you shall these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am.”

WHEN the time came to end his eventful political career, Charles J Haughey quoted Shakespeare’s Othello: “I have done the state some service, and they know it. No more of that. I pray you.”