FROM OUR FINAL SOLUTION EDITOR, HEINRICH HEINRICH

CALLS FOR A south Dublin park to be stripped of its name in protest at Israel’s military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza strip, have been met with a proposal that the park should be renamed after a famous Irish politician whose first speech to the Irish Parliament in 1943 (yes, 1943) ranks with the very best made by Adolf Hitler and his acolytes.

Oliver J Flanagan, whose political career lasted from 1943 to 1987, and who was conferred with a Papal knighthood in the 1970s, asked the Dail in his maiden speech to that august body, why the Emergency Powers Act which was then in force against the IRA, was not being used against the Jews: “How is it that we do not see any of these Acts directed against the Jews, who crucified Our Saviour nineteen hundred years ago, and who are crucifying us every day in the week? … There is one thing that Germany did, and that was to rout the Jews out of their country. Until we rout the Jews out of this country it does not matter a hair’s breath what orders you make. Where the bees are there is the honey and where the Jews are there is the money.”

Flanagan was a member of *Fine Gael all his life. He was re-elected to parliament multiple times. He was even appointed Minister for Defence in the 1970s.

*Fine Gael included a Fascist organisation, The Blueshirts, during the 1930s – ED