Callely in the firing line

IT’S just after lunch time on Friday, December 17, and Junior Transport Minister Ivor Callely is walking back to his office when he answers his mobile.

Perhaps unwisely, he agrees to an immediate interview in his office.

Unbeknownst to him, Tánaiste Mary Harney has just released to the Dáil internal minutes proving that former Health Minister Micheál Martin and Mr Callely were both at a certain meeting in the Gresham Hotel exactly a year previously.