Reputations will suffer from the GSOC affair

It is with deep disappointment I witness the unfortunate course the government has taken with the GSOC and whistle blower controversies.

Men and women I have held in the highest regard, Enda Kenny, Alan Shatter, Eamon Gilmore, Joan Burton and others, have made the decisions to downplay critical assertions and, moreover, to defer the proper analyses of them.

Everywhere I go and everyone I talk to has the same opinion: “It’s a cover up.” Why would intelligent politicians choose to cover up an unfortunate, perhaps corrupt, situation rather than look at it, fix it and earn the large amount of respect they would get for their direct and honest response? Many cardinals and bishops showed this response to the paedophilia crisis in the Church. The reputations of those involved in this unfortunate political strategy will suffer.

Orin Flint

Rosscarbery

Co Cork