Take note: It’s political patronage as usual

Michael Lowry’s ‘fine girl you are’ note to Enda Kenny in reference to Valerie O’Reilly shows that political patronage is as central to governing as it ever was, writes Michael Clifford

Michael Lowry lives in the real world. So he told Áine Lawlor on RTE’s News At One on Monday.

The implication is that those who made an issue over his “fine girl you are” note live in a parallel universe, many aeons from Mr Lowry’s flesh and blood world.