Aengus blots reputation with spent cartridges

It wasn’t spent cartridges, but the money spent on cartridges that saw Sinn Féin caught in the crossfire.

Aengus blots reputation with spent cartridges

Indeed, cartridges were ricocheting around Leinster House like in a war zone yesterday with credibility appearing to be the first casualty as proof emerged that Sinn Féin’s pious outpourings on Government waste aren’t worth the paper they are printed on — because the printing costs are truly astronomical, as just one of their TDs splashed out €50,000 of our money on ink cartridges in a two-year period.

Meanwhile, Enda Kenny played political Russian roulette as he loaded the referendum revolver’s chamber and started spinning it — but unfortunately, no one seemed quite sure whose head it will end up being held against, the eurozone, the electorate, or his own Government?

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