Today, as tax-cheat Dáil deputy Mick Wallace drives his “banger” jeep to the European soccer championships in Poland, garlic importer and fellow Vat dodger Paul Begley is in jail serving a six-year sentence for a €1.6m tax scam.

POLAND and Ukraine will host the European soccer championship in 2012 after UEFA awarded them the tournament ahead of Italy and another joint bid from Hungary and Croatia yesterday.