Let candidates have some dignity

SOME weeks ago, I wrote to your paper outlining what I considered might be the appropriate qualities for an Irish president in the current climate of financial uncertainly.

Let candidates have some dignity

One candidate emerged who could fulfil all the required criteria, but unfortunately the Fine Gael parliamentary party rejected him and we are left with a hotch-potch of well-meaning, but totally uninspiring, candidates.

The eventual winner will be elected on the basis of the person least disliked.

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