De Búrca: ‘I was assured promise of Green post’
Hitting back at claims she had promised to “damage” the Greens if she did not get a plum European job, Ms de Búrca said the two Green ministers withdrew support for Pat Cox for the commission as part of the deal, but they failed to make Brian Cowen stick to the agreement.
“John Gormley told me clearly he had negotiated a position for a Green in her new cabinet as a basic condition of Green Party support for her (Geoghegan-Quinn’s) nomination.
