Paddy the Plasterer for President just because he’s Bertie’s friend?

ENDA KENNY delivered what many people considered his finest speech ever at the recent Fine Gael ard fheis during which he promised “a contract for a better Ireland.”

For some he may have evoked memories of Garret FitzGerald’s views expressed in Towards a New Ireland.

Back in the early 1970s Garret was promising a pluralist Ireland in which we would respect the rights of Northern Protestants and they would, in turn, respect the rights of the minority in Northern Ireland.