On Bruton

‘I STILL talk to Bruton, he wouldn’t be going out of his way to speak to me or me him. But John is very much around and involved. I met him on numerous social events or in the Dáil itself.

‘John was always a very straight character. I always found that he was misunderstood in his early time in politics. But he’d a huge intellect and he’d a massive understanding and grasp of both national and international issues. He understood a brief rapidly.’