Tánaiste not going down without a fight

Facing the political gallows, the Tánaiste forcefully argued that she was not part of any conspiracy to undermine Maurice McCabe and had nothing to hide. 

This was her last chance, her death-row plea. And Frances Fitzgerald was clearly not going down without a fight. However, the problem with this controversy is that it has evolved and changed so much in the past 10 days it is very easy to slip up and be tripped up. Yesterday was no different.

It emerged that the Department of Justice had in fact dragged up the 2015 email at the centre of the scandal a full week before the Tánaiste was tipped off. And so, just as the Taoiseach was forced to change the story multiple times in the past week, Ms Fitzgerald also had to alter the series of events.