Niall O’Connor’s political bombshell

Niall O'Connor

JUNIOR finance minister Patrick O’Donovan is still wiping egg off his face after his blunder in naming the IRA as perpetrators of the Dublin-Monaghan bombing. But did Irish Independent political reporter Niall O’Connor – who published the minister’s remarks without criticism, comment or question – and his editor, Fionnan Sheahan, not realise what a scoop… Read more »

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