Sunday, September 15, 2019

Speech writing

"Speech writing by committee doesn't work."

-Miriam O'Callaghan, Enda Kenny's speech writer,  on RTE Radio 1 yesterday morning.

How true.

Miriam wrote the now famous Enda Kenny speech on the Cloyne clerical abuse case.

She also wrote the Kenny speech given on Dame Street when President Barack Obama was in Ireland.

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