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NEXT time I’m stopped by a garda at a checkpoint I think I’ll ask him if he’s Fine Gael or Fianna Fáíl.

Tue, 04 May, 2010 - 01:00

Or would I be labouring the point about their representative body entering politics?

PJ McElhone

Castle Avenue

Clontarf

Dublin 3

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