But my son tells me Dunphy made him look ridiculous. This is not difficult - which aspect of his wildly inflated self-importance was he ranting on last night?; the 'how I masterminded campaign strategies that were earth-moving in the effects' (which he didnt); or how all my Michael Collins film-scripts were ignored in the run up to the Neeson film because there is a conspiracy of rabid green-arsed nationalists who wont allow truth to be spoken'; or, 'Trots in the canteen of RTE have been holding me back in my career, and Anne Harris as well, for about twenty years. We are obviously two of the most important and interesting people on the planet and they determonedly refuse to recognise this because they are bitter, unreconstructed, Stalinist journos.'

Oh yes, and the appeals to the 'common man in the country is basically an American neo-conservative, if only we would look into his heart' (strangely reminiscent of Dev, whom he hates)....

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