Politics of the ruling elite

YOUR deputy editor, Brian Carroll, is be commended for taking some of the sting out of the unwarranted attacks on Tim Allen’s family (Irish Examiner, Jan 22).

Politics of the ruling elite
Fri, 31 Jan, 2003 - 00:00

His revelation and it was a revelation that judges are political appointees is matched by the quaint practice of giving plum Senate jobs to failed Dail deputies.

Or golden handshakes to the company directors of under-performing semi-state bodies.

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