The Evening Herald today joined the political establishment in a desperate bid to dig FiannaFail out of an electoral hole in Dublin by publishing a pathetic ‘Red Scare’ smear against me as the Socialist Party Euro Candidate by Fianna Fail Minister of Defence, Willie O’Dea.
Resorting to the most illiterate of political abuse, O’Dea pathetically tries to associate me with the ghost of the monster Stalin to scare Dublin voters, thereby insulting their intelligence.
The Herald is guilty of sharp practice and contemptible and partisan pro Fianna Fail propaganda by publishing lies from both O’Dea and Eoin Ryan without, quite deliberately, having afforded me any opportunity to respond.
The political abuse against me by Willie O’Dea, Eoin Ryan and Mary Harney, who is also quoted, is a panic attempt to divert attention away from the hatred for Fianna Fail among most voters in the capital. Quite appropriately, in page 11, right beside this bit of shameless opportunism, is a poster of a Dublin Local Election candidate in search of publicity with only a ukulele covering his nakedness!
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