O’Dea’s downfall pioneered a new way for politics

Dan Boyle’s new book is the first insider account of the Fianna Fáil-Green government and the economic and banking disasters that struck on its watch. Today, in the second and final extract from the book, he outlines the central role which he and social media site Twitter played in the 2010 resignation of Fianna Fáil defence minister Willie O’Dea

IN Limerick, an aside from minister for defence Willie O’Dea made during the white heat of the local election

campaign was creating legal as well as political fallout.