Mid-west TDs fail to show for Dáil debate on minister’s note

MAVERICK mid-west Fianna Fáil backbenchers who previously criticised the Government’s failure to intervene in the Shannon controversy were absent for yesterday’s Dáil debate.

Outspoken TDs such as Timmy Dooley, John Cregan and Niall Collins, and Defence Minister Willie O’Dea failed to appear in the Dáil chambers for the half-hour debate on the revelations that Department of Transport officials knew of Aer Lingus’s proposed pull-out in early June.

Also absent were Limerick East’s Peter Power and Clare TD and Minister of State at the Department of the Environment Tony Killeen.