PositiveIrish Independent (IRE)Being there or thereabouts at these crucial times may be the hook for this \'personal history\', but the most significant of all these situations was the fact that his father was a bus conductor, and he was raised in Crumlin. And from this all else flows—the moral authority of one who did not have access to Ireland’s labyrinth of inside tracks ... Like a Shakespearean actor \'giving\' his Richard III, Fintan \'gives\' his Haughey magnificently ... Hell, I guess we’re all partial to it, though Irish readers may already know Dickie Rock was \'the Irish equivalent of Elvis Presley or Cliff Richard\'. And in any sort of history of modern Ireland we’d expect a section on Denis O’Brien, and we mourn its absence. But we trust that Fintan won’t let us down out there, on the big stage. And yes, I know all that boring stuff about the liberal hegemony, about newspaper columnists preaching “progressive” sermons like the Missioners of old. But really, if we must have a hegemony, the best by a long way is the liberal kind. And to know how it happened here, this is the bible.
