Date: 23 December 2007 at 21:33:28 GMT
To: editor@observer.co.uk
Sir
If, as you say,Gordon Brown has always claimed to be the author of the slogan “Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” he must be more solemn and po-faced than I had imagined.
If you think it a nifty soundbite you must lack all imagination.
Can I be the only person who on hearing Tony Blair first use it replied “Hard on fornication, ……..”?
Yours faithfully
Donal Kennedy
From: donalmkennedy@aol.com
Date: 16 November 2010 at 11:35:49 GMT
To: lettersed@irishtimes.com
Subject: “Let us now praise famous men”
Ecclesiaticus urges us to praise famous men.
Those of us of a certain age are getting a tad confused trying to keep up with the fashion….
Once we praised men in trench coats who died for Ireland. Then we were advised to forget them and honour exclusively those who died in the trenches who were similarly motivated.
Now Sean Donlon (Feb 15) and Garret Fitzgerald (Feb 13) urge us to praise trenchermen who dined for Ireland.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy,second as farce, third as farts?
Yours faithfully
Donal Kennedy
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