Anti-republican hysteria could backfire

By Damien Kiberd (for Daily Ireland)

Some time ago ex-Taoiseach Albert Reynolds told me of going to the funeral of one of his Longford constituents in the early 1990s. The deceased was from a strong Fine Gael family in the area so Fianna Fail man Reynolds did not push himself to the top of the church, but sat quietly about half way up. He was quite startled just before the funeral began when a middle-aged man politely asked him to leave. He was the wrong political colour.

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