FOR SOME years Mattie McGrath was the archetypal rural Independent having left Fianna Fáil in 2010, partly over the EU-IMF bail-out and in recent years was seen as leader of the Rural Independent Group (RIG) formed after the 2020 general election. But the Independents are, if anything, more factional and fratricidal than the soldiers of… Read more »
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