US has a real leader: we have tribal chieftains

READING last week’s column (March 5) by the best leader Fine Gael never had, I would just like to add the most significant point which somehow Ivan Yates missed.

Brian Cowen’s leadership ability has one very major flaw (as indeed do the other party leaders) and that is the fact that Cowen does not like anyone who does not have the letters “FF” running down through them like a stick of candy rock.

Cowen, Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore are insular people.