Richard Doyle

Nothing recent, mind you. On Feb. 26, 1998 senators convened to say farewell to Richard J. Doyle, late of the Globe, one of the first senators Brian Mulroney had appointed to the red chamber almost 13 years earlier. I often wonder what Doyle, whom I never met, would have made of the world that has come into being since he died in 2003. I am not at all sure politics is the only field he would view with dismay, but it’s true that I was thinking of the Senate when I looked him up today. Here is some of what Doyle’s colleagues said on his retirement: