Obama aide and Gaybo both targets as myopic outlooks triumph

Dr McCarthy queried the appointment of Gay Byrne to the RSA because Byrne is in his 70s.

On that basis, the Rev Ian Paisley shouldn’t have been allowed to have anything to do with the peace process because he was too old. Similarly, the Pope should be forcibly retired.

DURING the American civil war, news kept reaching President Abraham Lincoln — news freighted with disapproval.