Cianan Brennan: An Bord Pleanála following the whitewash playbook
An Bord Pleanála chairman Dave Walsh recommended Paul Hyde's appointment as deputy chairman.
We’re fully six months into the scandal surrounding An Bord Pleanála, and it feels very much like the whitewash playbook is being followed step by step.
That may sound like a strange thing to say, given it has emerged that the former deputy chairman of the planning authority Paul Hyde is facing criminal charges of giving false declarations of interest to ABP.
