Fine Gael appoints security company to oversee ballot boxes

It says a lot about a lack of trust in politics when politicians seem to not even trust themselves.

Fine Gael has contracted a security firm which normally protects the physical movement of large quantities of money from banks via vans to oversee the security of its ballot boxes over the coming days.

Several sources in the party have told the Irish Examiner the move was taken in order to guarantee leadership votes from grassroots members are not tampered with between now and the time they are revealed on Friday.