FF TD claims Collins legacy

MICHAEL Collins would have joined Eamon de Valera in Fianna Fáil had he lived, it was claimed yesterday.

FF TD claims Collins legacy

Former Fianna Fáil minister Ned O’Keeffe raised the intriguing scenario in an oration at a 1916 Easter Rising commemoration in Mitchelstown, County Cork.

He said Fine Gael claimed Collins would have joined the ranks of its party. But there was no guarantee he would ever have done so.

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