Ó Cuív foiled in bid to boost FF coffers

FIANNA Fáil’s Eamon Ó Cuív led a move to boost party coffers by suggesting to his three former ministerial colleagues to donate their severance pay to the party.

Mr Ó Cuív proposed to colleagues that his ministerial severance pay along with that of Micheál Martin, Brian Lenihan and Brendan Smith — the four returned former ministers — be donated to Fianna Fáil.

The four former ministers discussed donating part of their near total €350,000 in severance pay packages to FF after initially agreeing to give up the generous payments, Mr Ó Cuív said last night.