Why no apology for Dev’s insult to the Jews?

PRESIDENT MARY MCALEESE was right recently to apologise to our Protestant neighbours for her percieved insults to them.

Why no apology for Dev’s insult to the Jews?

She should not, however, have gone on to blame Catholics for defending themselves against sectarian attacks. Some is not all.

The commemoration of the Holocaust was not the time or place to make this facile comparison. It puts her qualities of leadership into question.

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