Ahern must get rid of rotten apples

WHAT do Michael Collins, GV Wright, Liam Lawlor, Denis Foley, Ray Burke, and Charles Haughey have in common? The answer is Fianna Fáil membership and political odium.

It is deplorable that the popular image of the country's largest party is increasingly defined in the public mind by a handful of politicians who manifestly have no respect for the laws of the land.

Yesterday, West Limerick TD Michael Collins, brother of former minister and MEP Gerry Collins, was named and shamed as a bogus non-resident account holder.