Ah yes ... Roche: the infamous Member of Parliament for Tralee, Ireland. Author of such classic lines as:
"Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him floating in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud."
"Mr. Speaker, how could I be in two places at once unless I were a bird?"
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."
"Ireland is today overflowing with absentee landlords."
"He is the sort of man who would stab you in the chest when your back was turned."
"These people are destitute of even the goods they possess."
"Why should we be concerned about posterity, what has posterity done for us?"
"All along the untrodden paths of the future I can see the footprints of an unseen hand."
"The cup of Ireland's miseries has been overflowing for centuries, and is not yet full."
Cheers,
Seán.