Flash, but no substance

The low-budget 1930s film serial, Flash Gordon, with its arch villain, Ming the Merciless, ruler of Mongo, is far more interesting than the ersatz Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, of Castlerea, County Roscommon.

Flash, but no substance
Fri, 15 Mar, 2013 - 00:00
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Why, oh why, do we continue to elect these self-serving types to our national parliament and local county councils?

K Nolan

Carrick-on-Shannon

Co Leitrim

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