Opposition slate McDowell over media comments

OPPOSITION parties last night rounded on Justice Minister Michael McDowell for attacking the media over what he called a “feeding frenzy” on the Flood Report.

“One journalist says something and the rest demand that we respond,” Mr McDowell said of the media response to Mr Justice Feargus Flood’s findings that former Fianna Fáil minister Ray Burke received corrupt payments in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Progressive Democrats chairman asked if it was the media’s agenda that the PDs should withdraw from the Coalition because Mr Burke lied five years ago when he was seeking a Cabinet appointment. Instead, Mr McDowell said, the Government should concentrate on the real problems.