WHEN CHARLIE McConalogue was unexpectedly elevated to cabinet at the expense of Dara Calleary, few predicted the emergence of that rare creature in Irish politics: a nationally minded government minister. While the bike-riding media above in Dublin sneer at rural parochialism, cometh McConalogue, a TD from the most historically deprived of all Irish counties who… Read more »
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