Fine Gael claim that their plan for Reinventing Government will lead to “the abolition of 145 state bodies and companies”. On their Flickr account, they put it more bluntly: Fine Gael will “abolish 145 quangos”. So I decided to have a closer look…
Monthly Archive: February 2011
Feb 07
“I’m a civil engineer”
Pearse Doherty got into bother last week, when the Donegal Sinn Féin website identified him as a civil engineer. [Not just the website by the way, as shown by the image opposite, from Pearse's byelection literature]. Here’s Pearse on Highland Radio: “I’ve always been up front. I told people in many interviews that I left …