McDowell attacks ‘gutter politics’

JUSTICE MINISTER Michael McDowell yesterday called on Fine Gael’s Richard Bruton to “square up to him man-to-man” in a row over garda figures.

Mr Bruton said Department of Justice figures showed that only two extra gardaí were recruited to Dublin in 2005.

Mr McDowell accused him of being a “fraud” and of knowingly producing “grossly misleading and falsified” figures.