Importance of being Ivor revealed in lavish wishlist

IN December 2005, just before Ivor Callely’s ministerial career came crashing to a halt, he rejected rumours that he had demanded a new carpet and wider refurbishment in his office at the Department of Transport.

“The only thing I requested be put in my office was a clock,” he said.

But it was a very different story three years previously, according to documentation obtained by this paper.