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Matt Cooper: O’Dea misfire on ‘woke’ gallery leaves him in questionable company
Former minister and veteran TD has form in speaking out, but he should be more careful with whom he aligns himself
Willie O’Dea has a thing against what he calls “the woke gallery”. Last Monday’s opportunistic post-referendum tweet contained the phrase, one which the former Fianna Fáil minister has used before.
What he wrote on Monday was: “Fianna Fáil needs to get back to basics and abandon the Hate Speech Bill etc. Focus on Housing, Health and Law and Order and stop playing to the woke gallery. Start listening to the people, stop talking down to ...
