Reality bites as Walsh becomes Joe Soap again

IT’S A tough life when the ministerial Merc is removed.

Reality bites as Walsh becomes Joe Soap again

Former Agriculture Minister Joe Walsh has told of the difficulties he endured after making way for Mary Coughlan in the Cabinet reshuffle of 2004.

The hardest thing to get used to after almost two decades of holding junior and senior ministerial portfolios, Mr Walsh said, was being ignored.

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