Reynolds rightly claims the peace dividend — before losing the plot
Nor has it been simply a matter of what he did or didn’t do — over Larry Goodman, over the X case, over Harry Whelehan.
Frankly, some seemed to question whether he was ever the right sort of person to lead modern Ireland. Not to put too fine a point on it, there was something about him that some, not least in the media, found irritating. A lot of people, including some in Fianna Fáil, didn’t regard the one-time dog food manufacturer as “one of us”.
