Gallagher tweet myth

Could we please put an end to the myth that Sean Gallagher’s presidential campaign was derailed by a tweet.

Why didn’t Gallagher say straight away “yes, I was asked to locate business people who would be willing to pay to attend a Fianna Fáil fund-raising dinner to be hosted by Brian Cowen and I did so.

I collected the cheques, made out to Fianna Fáil, and forwarded them. There was nothing wrong or covert about this, it was done openly and was a standard way for political parties to raise funds.”

Had he done that there would have been no tweet because there would have been no point in sending one.

Brendan Casserly

Abbeybridge

Waterfall

Co Cork