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Daniel McConnell: A ringside seat at history in the making 

During 17 years at Leinster House there have been angry exchanges,  differences overcome, and battles recommenced
Daniel McConnell: A ringside seat at history in the making 

Daniel McConnell chats to Leo Varadkar in 2022, but relations were not always cordial. Picture: Dan Linehan

“GO fuck yourself, Danny,” was the unfiltered comment by the TD who I had turned over the previous weekend, as he passed me on the plinth at the front of Leinster House.

In my 17 years in Leinster House, which comes to an end next Tuesday as I depart the Irish Examiner, such comments from politicians with whom you clashed were not unprecedented.

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