It’s the secrecy, not the sources, of campaigns we should be policing

Policy makers don’t really like advocacy, it puts them under pressure. That’s why they make it difficult to fund, writes Fergus Finlay.

I DON’T know if you heard it, but my goodness that was some unseemly row between Colm O’Gorman and David Quinn on Seán O’Rourke’s RTÉ Radio 1 programme the other morning? It was so epic that I’m guessing it will have been replayed a few times.

Both men refused to let O’Rourke get a word in edgeways — they let their dislike of each other prevail to such an extent that both became completely incoherent. I understand that feeling because I’ve fallen into that trap a few times myself.