Outgoing EU auditor says Cardiff is ‘credible’

KEVIN CARDIFF, the Government’s controversial nomination to the European Court of Auditors, has been described as a very credible appointment by the outgoing Irish auditor, Eoin O’Shea.

Mr Cardiff — who attended the infamous meeting when the last government decided to give a blanket guarantee to the banks — was in Brussels yesterday canvassing support for the job.

He is hoping to win the support of the large political groupings in the parliament, the Socialists, to which the Labour party is attached, and the European People’s Party (EPP) to which Fine Gael belongs.