Senator has weak hold of moral high ground

I WAS tempted to check the date of your edition that carried the report from Senator Liam Twomey (‘Lenihan slammed as speaker for Collins commemoration, August 12’) objecting to a “Fianna Fáil minister like Brian Lenihan” giving the oration at the Michael Collins commemoration in Béal na mBláth next Sunday.

It was not that I expected to see it dated April 1, but sometime in the 1930s. Apart from such bigoted and neanderthal views, Senator Twomey’s letter carries some historical inaccuracies.

Most important of these is his statement “Fine Gael, the party that created the state under Michael Collins”, which is factually incorrect.