Kevin Myers: Lee's betrayal shows us Fine Gael is not fit to lead
Kevin Myers
It has been a sobering week. The man who looked me in the eye at a public conversation in UCD two months ago, who said he could not unsew what he had sewn, and that RTE was a receding shore to which he would never return, has unsewn. It is the sea that now recedes.
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