Noel Browne

He was a politician well ahead of his time

Yet his name does not live on in song, story and rhyme

As a Minister for health in the Irish Government his was not a long stay

For his ahead of the time thinking dismissal price he did pay

Long before young Irish women used the anti birth pill

Noel Browne introduced to Dail Eireann his Mother and Child Bill

But the Catholic clergy in Ireland held political sway

And on the killing off of what was a good bill they did have their way

Noel Browne was a political wizard in truth of him can be said

And of all Irish politicians in thinking then he was decades ahead

In the Ireland of the nineteen fifties due to his thinking he was looked on by many as strange

There can be a huge price to pay for the instigators of change

Though his part for a better Ireland for  the disadvantaged to live in he surely did play

In ths history of his Country he is not well remembered today

The best politician that i can recall

To ever hold a seat in the Irish Dail

One well ahead of his time happens to be so

Though he died a disappointed man many years ago

Many of the policies he legislated for are popular in every democratic Country of today

Noel Browne a politician in his thinking well ahead of his time in truth one can say