TDs hail heroes from Kennedy and Gandhi to Kenny and Gilmore

MANDELA, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi make the list. So too do Bill Clinton, John F Kennedy and Franklin D Roosevelt. Aung San Suu Kyi and Mary Robinson are cited, as is Hillary Clinton.

Their connection? They’ve all been named by the Dáil’s current crop of TDs as their political heroes.

The TDs reveal their sources of inspiration in a newly published book, Election 2011 & the 31st Dáil, by the RTÉ team behind The Week in Politics show.