Lenihan laments ‘a bad day for Irish politics’

FIANNA FÁIL ministers have savaged Labour leader Eamon Gilmore for kick-starting the process which forced the resignation of Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue.

Lenihan laments ‘a bad day for Irish politics’
Thu, 08 Oct, 2009 - 01:00
Paul O’Brien Juno McEnroe Brian Hutton and Shaun Connolly

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan denounced the forced resignation as a bad day for Irish politics, saying Mr O’Donoghue had not been given opportunity to explain his travel bills and expenses.

Defence Minister Willie O’Dea insinuated that Mr Gilmore’s intervention was worse than a Stalinist show trial, being a case of “sentence first, trial afterwards”.

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