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.

McDowell attacks ‘gutter politics’

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.

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