O’Donoghue keeps decentralisation pledge after 22 years

SPORTS Minister John O’Donoghue was credited yesterday with keeping a promise he made back in the early 1980s to decentralise Government jobs to south Kerry.

Thu, 04 Mar, 2004 - 00:00

Fionnán Sheahan, Political Correspondent

Mr O'Donoghue jokingly offered to make Pat Rabbitte his election agent after the Labour leader highlighted a commitment made by Fianna Fáil in 1982 to decentralise to Killarney.

Describing the present round of decentralisation as a political stroke, Mr Rabbitte said it reminded him of a 1982 advertisement in a Kerry newspaper featuring a fresh-faced Mr O'Donoghue promising that FF would move the Department of Justice to Killarney.