Deputy defends the indefensible

DEPUTY John Cregan’s partisan letter (March 1) attacking RTÉ for its coverage of the Mahon Tribunal is a flagrant abuse of his position as chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, and it represents neither Fine Gael members of that committee nor “the Irish taxpayer and the licence-paying public”, as it claims.

His attack represents further evidence of the depths to which Fianna Fáil will stoop in their obsession with protecting the Taoiseach, regardless of his credibility among the public.

The new tactic, it seems, is to attack anybody who questions Bertie Ahern’s evidence and analyses the inconsistencies therein.