Haughey showed no anger over decentralisation

SEÁN HAUGHEY may well believe there has to be more to politics than electoral advantage, but where was his anger when the lives of thousands of civil servants were thrown into confusion by the McCreevy/Parlon decentralisation stroke?

Haughey showed no anger over decentralisation
Tue, 21 Feb, 2006 - 00:00

Nothing has so blatantly typified ‘politics for electoral advantage’ on a massive scale in recent years.

Yet it was loudly cheered by Mr Haughey and his Fianna Fáil parliamentary colleagues who couldn’t fail to recognise it for the political stroke it clearly was.

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