Sir, - John Waters is wrong. The election of Mary Robinson in 1990 was an act which was carefully planned over nine months before her success at the polls in November 1990.
It did not just happen as he would now like us to believe. As early as June 1990, when she started her campaign in Allihies, West Cork, it was obvious to many of us that there was a constituency which would elect her. Some of them had danced at the crossroads and others had even danced in Dublin 4, but we all knew that her victory would change Ireland and the Presidency, which it most certainly has done. - Ruairi Quinn TD,
Dail Eireann,
Dublin 2.