FF TD blasts party’s ‘stroke politics’

FIANNA FÁIL’S decision on its last full day in power to appoint two of its own councillors to state boards was classic “stroke politics” and should never have happened, one of the party’s own TDs has said.

Michael McGrath has lambasted former ministers Mary Hanafin and Pat Carey for making the appointments, saying they were entirely wrong to do so.

“I think that those appointments were typical of the type of stroke politics that contributed to Fianna Fáil’s electoral disaster on February 25,” Mr McGrath said.