Readers Blog: Prone loses run of herself in column on Brian Cowen

Terry Prone is my favourite political agony aunt. 

But in the case of her latest column, ‘Cowen might have an honorary doctorate, but he has not learned’ (Irish Examiner, July 31), lecturing Brian Cowen on ‘home truths’ on the basis of one personal experience, she has lost the run of herself.

She has not been elected to anything, not submitted herself to the will of the people anywhere, whereas Mr Cowen has done so in his constituency, in his party, in the Dáil — and in the full glare of the media.