Former ministers rewriting history in pathetic bid to save their own skins

I WAS reminded of the above quote from Alice in Wonderland as I sat agog in front of the television on Monday night watching Crisis: Inside the Cowen Government — the biggest exercise in revisionism since David Irving’s last book launch.

To its credit, the RTÉ documentary charting the fall, and fall, of Fianna Fáil had a remarkable scoop — ministers were apparently gagged and bound to their cabinet chairs for the duration of Brian Cowen’s tenure as Taoiseach.

One by one they all lined up, lower lips shaking, to tell us their tales of woe. Many still seemed to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder — not because of any of the calamities that befell the country on their watch, rather the pain of losing their seats is still raw.