Government playbook in Air Corps scandal copies all the others

The State's response to decade-old Air Corps chemical exposure scandal is clearly one of 'deny, delay, die'

Gavin Tobin beside Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnell, Co Dublin; it has been over a decade since he, one of the whistleblowers, first took legal action against the State. File picture: Gareth Chaney

I have a personal yardstick by which to measure how long it has been since the Irish Examiner broke news of the scandal of the chemical exposures suffered by Air Corps personnel.

I will always know my first story on this was published in January 2017.