SIMON COVENEY’S FORMER FRIENDS

Simon Coveney

RIGHT up to the last hours of the Fine Gael leadership contest Simon Coveney’s team persuaded themselves that ‘defeat-jaws-victory-snatch’ was on the cards. Their calculation was that the 21 declared supporters plus three undeclared cabinet members – Enda Kenny, Michael Noonan and Michael Creed – and MEP Sean Kelly would bring them up to 25…. Read more »

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