Enough of the lettering on it had survived to identify its creator: former Fine Gael TD and Minister Alan Shatter. His comments are unjustified and he should not be using his religion to avoid taking responsibility for his own hubris. But McGee also observed that Shatter was “mercurial, imaginative, smart and energetic” and had “a great deal of flair”. There have always been strands of Irish anti-Semitism but the Ireland in which Shatter was born in 1951 was not anti-Semitic. In claiming anti-Semitism as a cause of his downfall, Shatter is not only off the ball; he is completely out of the court.

Source: The Irish Times June 08, 2019 00:56 UTC