After reading Fr Mark Montebello’s Talking Point, Dear Dom – Banal And Insolent (April 3), I came to know that my name was being used in connection with the Dear Dom movie and words that I never said were attributed to me.

To date, no comments of mine on the film were ever published in any media. I only gave comments to a journalists of The Times, which were never published.

My comments on that occasion ran as follows:

A) That independently of any personal view which one might have on the slant given to the film (which is unfairly overcritical of Dom Mintoff in my opinion), the fact that films are being made on political figures is something positive and important.

B) That I find the leitmotif of the allegation of the force of change being resistant to change in the end interesting from the literary point of view.

I applied it to what is happening now with the Nationalist Party since, in spite of being the force of change for civil liberties in 1987, it now is itself resisting change on various liberal issues (divorce, IVF etc);

C) Asked specifically by the journalist whether Labourites should see the film, I answered: Yes, why not? Labourites can choose to disagree, argue and debate. That is the essence of democracy.

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