Michael Noonan: I won’t go on ‘charlatan’ Browne’s programme

Finance Minister Michael Noonan didn’t mince his words during in an interview when discussing Vincent Browne.

He dealt with his refusal to appear on Tonight with Vincent Browne on TV3 when it was broadcast from Limerick recently.

Recalling Mr Browne’s repeated criticism of him for refusing to go on his programme, he said: “Vincent criticised me, but Vincent knew I wouldn’t go on his programme. I don’t like Vincent Browne and I don’t go on his programmes and I won’t go on his programmes. I think he’s a charlatan. I just don’t like the fella.

“I mean he comes up here to Limerick, and he launches an attack on me for no good reason. Vincent would know for four years that I wouldn’t appear on his programme.

“The position is that Vincent Browne could be running a programme all night from the Statue of Liberty and Michael Noonan will not go on. Don’t like the fella,” he told The Limerick Leader.

Mr Noonan flagged the announcement of another 400 jobs for an industry in the National Technological Park in Plassey.

“I think the announcement will be in January of February, but we can’t say what company it is yet. It will be somewhere near the university was how it was described to me,” he said.