Oh for someone with the guts to tackle the past

By Brian Feeney (for Irish News)

Painful though it is to admit it, the only politician talking sense over the past week was Peter Hain. He popped up repeatedly on the BBC, sometimes on Skype from his Neath constituency, sometimes by phone with his perma-tanned photograph on screen and on RTE too.

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