Madam, – David Carroll, (December 10th), described Brian Cowen’s performance last week as “storming, bravura, engaged, passionate, combative and more fired up than any time since he became Taoiseach”. Really? All I saw was an ill-tempered, belligerent corner boy growling and snapping at all around him, and whose sole focus is his job as head of the Fianna Fáil party, while the country he claims to lead is falling apart around him, mainly due to his own actions.
It’s yet another sign of how far this country has fallen when such boorish behaviour is seen as something to be admired in a taoiseach. – Yours, etc,