Sir, - Irish emigrants will not get a vote for a reason that will never be publicly admitted and so will be impossible to counter. Quite simply, emigrants are not the clients of any Irish politician, and those politicians abhor such people.
Think about it: tens of thousands of people in England alone, and not so much as a medical card between the lot of them. How can such people realise that it is TDs who provide such things, and so return the favour at the ballot box. The very idea is anathema to Irish democracy.
So the fine words of such as John Waters, in appealing to fine ideals such as universal suffrage, will completely miss the target and will be completely ignored.
Yours, etc.,
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