Call Finian by his proper title, Minister for Smoking

Is there any chance at all that, until he leaves his current post and you have an article and/or picture relating to him, you refer to Finian McGrath by his PROPER title, Minister For Smoking?

Thu, 19 May, 2016 - 01:00

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To call him a health minister nowadays is positively Orwellian.

And it would put you WAY ahead of RTÉ.

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