Boyle: FF did try to get EU job for de Búrca

GREEN Party chairman, Dan Boyle, has said Fianna Fáil did everything it could to get his former party colleague Déirdre de Búrca a job with the European Commission.

He said claims that party leader John Gormley felt “shafted” by Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s lack of support were not true.

He said the Green Party had understood its soon-to-be defected senator, Ms de Búrca, was in the running for a job on Maire Geoghegan-Quinn’s commission cabinet.