Locals full of pride but say Martin ‘not blameless’

“IT TOOK a great Corkman, Jack Lynch, to put the trickies out of office. It’s taken another great Corkman to do the same.”
Locals full of  pride  but  say Martin ‘not blameless’

That was how one sprightly and quick-witted elderly lady put it yesterday after noon Mass in Micheál Martin’s political heartland in Cork South Central.

As Mr Martin and his family left the grounds of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Ballinlough, most Mass-goers backed the former Minister for Foreign Affairs to become the next leader of Fianna Fáil.

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