O’Donoghue ‘has made National Lottery a political slush fund’

SPORTS Minister John O’Donoghue has turned the National Lottery into a ‘political slush fund’, Fine Gael said yesterday.

O’Donoghue ‘has made National Lottery a political slush fund’
Tue, 18 May, 2004 - 01:00
Michael Brennan and Harry McGee

It described the €300,000 grant given to a Kerry rowing club in breach of Department guidelines as ‘Punchestown Mark Two’.

“The National Lottery has become a political slush fund. The points system can be circumvented and Fianna Fáil have manipulated it to suit their own electoral interest,” said sports spokesman Jimmy Deenihan.

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