Noel O’Flynn was agitated. He pointed a finger at the reporter and said in no uncertain terms that he had no comment to make. Then he walked away in a sour air. Quite obviously, he felt aggrieved.
The scene was Cork City Hall at the general election count in 2002. O’Flynn, a Fianna Fáil TD, had hit the headlines in the run-up to the election, lashing out against asylum seekers, who had just begun to arrive in an Ireland that was newly wealthy.
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