John McGuirk

If there was any truth at all to the various stories and rumours linking George Hook to a Fine Gael ticket, whether that ticket be for the Park, or the Mansion House, would George really write things like this?

“The current leader of FG can dress and look the part but cannot sound like a leader. That is a much more difficult problem for the party handlers. Ahern made a virtue of mangling the English language but it just made him more human. Kenny on the canvass is if anything superior to Ahern but becomes a different person in the vicinity of a microphone. Sadly for Kenny, he just may not be able to shake enough hands, knock on enough doors and drink enough pints to win the next election. One disastrous TV interview could undo all the miles of shoe leather expended on the stump.”

Just sayin’.