Why has McDowell remained so strangely silent on the Curtin affair?

HAVING dealt with the Brian Curtin matter last week, I am loath to revisit it again so soon.

But the whole thing has such sinister implications that answers are needed and people should not be put off by the orgy of invective that was unleashed against the retired judge last weekend.

Nobody seemed to ask why “exclusive access to the details” of the material illegally seized in the raid at Curtin’s home was leaked last week to the Irish Independent. During October we had a series of ministers exercising their indignation over the leak about Bertie Ahern receiving money, but they were all strangely silent about last weekend’s leak.