EU QUANGO RIDES ON

Simon Coveney

PERHAPS THE most successful hybrid quango in modern Ireland has been the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), founded 30 years ago by the late Brendan Halligan, its first chairperson. Halligan was succeeded as chairman by ex-Labour Party leader, Ruairi Quinn in 2017, an appropriate succession given that as finance minister in 1995, Quinn’s… Read more »

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