An Post attacks the leadership

An Post has launched a stinging attack on the Cowen Government with the release of a new stamp commemorating Louis Braille.

Chairman of An Post, John Fitzgerald, who was appointed in the dying days of the Ahern era, said yesterday: ‘We already launched a Braille commemoration stamp in 2006 so strictly, there’s no need for another one. But the symbolism of the blind leading the blind was too great to pass over.’

‘Louis Braille was a unique example of a blind person leading the blind and making a success of it,’ he continued. ‘The Taoiseach is at the other end of that scale, and seems to be leading us into the ditch.’

Braille lost his sight at the age of three and from his early teenage years began developing the system of reading and writing for the blind and visually impaired that is used today.