Which portraits should be removed?

Labour Senator James Heffernan ponders whether it was appropriate that the portraits of politicians who had been “found culpable of corruption, of abuse of power, abuses of privilege and, indeed perjury”, should still hang in Leinster House.

Which portraits should be removed?

He claimed these people “have stained political life in Ireland and it’s time they were wiped from our memory” (Irish Examiner, Mar 28).

Does he include in his list of inappropriate images the portrait of former Taoiseach Dr Garret FitzGerald?

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