Gilmore: Govt formation timed for TV news

The formation of the new Government was carefully time to coincide with yesterday’s TV news bulletins, it was claimed in the Dáil by Labour leader Eamon Gilmore today.

Comprehensive footage of the key events of the day, including the Taoiseach Brian Cowen and his Cabinet getting their seals of office at Áras an Uachtaráin, were beamed live onto RTE and TV3.