Government must open files - A significant victory for democracy

In a 24-carat grade irony, the kind that makes scepticism around politics all but mandatory, just days after Leo Varadkar empathised with US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media, a legal team representing the Taoiseach’s department was told by the High Court that their efforts at news management could not stand because they were illegal.

Government must open files - A significant victory for democracy

In a 24-carat grade irony, the kind that makes scepticism around politics all but mandatory, just days after Leo Varadkar empathised with US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media, a legal team representing the Taoiseach’s department was told by the High Court that their efforts at news management could not stand because they were illegal.

On Wednesday, Ms Justice Mary Faherty overturned a Government refusal to disclose Cabinet discussions on greenhouse-gas emissions between 2002 and 2016.

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