No rules broken, but hardly fair play

MARTIN CULLEN was proclaiming himself an innocent man yesterday. If Dermot Quigley’s remit had been to investigate political cronyism and parochialism, the verdict would have been distinctly different.

The Transport Minister was cleared of any wrongdoing in the appointment of his political associate Monica Leech to a series of PR contracts ultimately worth €390,000.

However, that does not mean he acted in an impeccable manner and the report by Dermot Quigley certainly isn’t the last to be heard from this affair.