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Thu 05 May 2004Sorry saga of Smith v DefenceIt is said that the great 19th century patriot Daniel O'Connell was such a philanderer that if you threw a stone over any wall in Ireland you'd hit one of his offspring, writes Mary Raftery.These days, it seems, throw a stone and you'll hit a Fianna Fáil property developer - certainly one interpretation of recent radio remarks made by Minister for Defence, Michael Smith. He was responding to queries about new premises for the Civil Defence headquarters, shortly to be decentralised from Dublin to the Minister's home town of Roscrea.