Michael McDowell: “There are many things I think should be done; one of them is a wholly different approach to local government in Ireland…I look at Dublin. It’s a mess.”
A slayer of dragons before judges and a white knight before parliament, Sam Smyth meets barrister and Senator Michael McDowell to talk politics, policing, power, bravery and freedom of the press. On the Progressive Democrats, he said: "We weren’t neoliberals. We just wanted to liberate Ireland from the dead hand of a half-century of State control of the economy." Having ruled himself out of contention for the next Dåil, might he run as Dublin’s first directly elected mayor?
