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I’m fascinated by Martin Mansergh TD. If you have ever seen/heard him then you will know how incompetent he can be in interviews. Definitely a case of the smart man coming across as a village idiot because of his antics. Interviews with Martin quickly descend into farce; he lets loose a desperate stream of verbal diarrhea, shouting in a bizarre fashion every time someone presses him or tries to interrupt. This shouting is almost hypnotic. I say shouting, but it’s probably more accurate to call it hysterical shrieking. He leads everyone on a wild dance through the meadows, failing to answer the simplest of questions and just failing in general.
Martin is a cartoon character, and can occasionally be comedy gold. In 2008 he told Senator Eugene Regan “you should have some respect for your betters” for daring to question Bertie Ahern’s dodgy finances. As long as there are clowns like this in politics, we’ll always have something funny to look at.
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