Lenihan deserves respect for taking tough decisions

It will be a year tomorrow since Brian Lenihan died at the young age of 52 of pancreatic cancer.

There are very few national political figures who will receive the huge reaction of sympathy and respect as he did last year.

Some 9,000 people signed the book of condolence at his Dublin constituency office, with thousands more signing in Athlone, where his late father Brian Lenihan Snr and he came from.