Right occasion, wrong message

AS we watched the closing moments of the Special Olympics, many of us witnessed the most insensitive and inappropriate piece of political spinning for many a day.

A light aircraft circled Croke Park with a message flying from its rear which read 'Thank you, Bertie.'

As an individual who has spent almost all of my adult life working with and caring for people with intellectual disabilities I, and many others, felt that such an act of political spinning had no place at this very unique and special ceremony.