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Good luck trying to unearth public reps purer than snow

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17.10.2025

A Different View with Dave O’Connell

You’d wonder how far any of us would get if every tiny detail of our lives to date was dragged up at a job interview – and yet we expect our politicians to be purer than the driven snow.

If you didn’t screw up at some stage, you haven’t really lived. Whether it was sailing close to the wind in your formative years or committing an error of judgement further down the road, nobody gets to a certain vintage without a couple of suitcases packed with old baggage.

So we tolerate our own past indiscretions, but we........

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