Attack on media smacks of hypocrisy

IT is disingenuous of Justice Minister Michael McDowell to round on the media for ringing alarm bells about corruption in high places.

He is being totally unrealistic if he expects either the media or the public to draw a veil over the events of 1997 when Taoiseach Bertie Ahern accepted the word of disgraced ex-minister Ray Burke that there was no truth in rumours he was involved in corruption.

As we now know with the certainty of the Flood Tribunal findings, Mr Burke was up to his neck in corruption at the time, taking massive bribes from developers.