Price we pay for turning blind eye

THE Taoiseach used the opening of the Dublin Port Tunnel last week to attack “begrudgers”.

At the very time when a former Taoiseach was portrayed as being less than honest in his dealings with the people whom he represented at the highest levels of government, I think Mr Ahern would have been wiser just to have celebrated the opening of the tunnel and remained silent about those he regards as begrudgers.

After all, this is a democratic republic in which ordinary people have the right to complain about the activity, or lack of it, of those who put themselves forward to represent them. They may be right or wrong.