Garret fails to account for era of political corruption
In part 2 of his musings on civic morality in the Republic, Garret FitzGerald tackles the question of why the lack of it only became fatal in recent decades in a most tortuous and evasive piece of prose. The old warriors of the independence era at least had personal integrity in common, he says. When they were about to pass on, the Fianna Failers among them chose Garret and other political opponents to confide their death bed fears. when …
