O’Malley memoir is ‘bound to ruffle feathers’

Des O’Malley’s much-anticipated memoir detailing over three decades spent in the Dáil cauldron is bound to ruffle a few feathers, the author has admitted.

Speaking in Limerick on Monday night, the 79-year-old — who leapt to prominence in the early 1970s as the fiercely principled justice minister — said he “can’t help it” if members of Charles Haughey’s family are upset by his book.

The Limerick native was expelled from Fianna Fáil for “conduct unbecoming of a member” in 1985.