Shatter: Lowry media coverage 'echoes McCarthyism'

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said he is unwilling to take part in "an unethical media project of compiling a blacklist of elected TDs" that ministers should not meet on official business or talk to.

Minister Shatter was hitting out at what he's called a "grossly misleading" newspaper headline which quoted him as saying he refused to reveal whether he had met Michael Lowry following the publication of the Mahon Tribunal report.