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''It's quite a significant problem, it's consuming government business...''

Despite the Government’s Covid exit plan being announced this week, as well as the House 4 All ...

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17.13 3 Sep 2021


''It's quite a significant problem, it's consuming government business...''


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17.13 3 Sep 2021


Despite the Government’s Covid exit plan being announced this week, as well as the House 4 All Plan, the big story this week has been MerrionGate and all the furore around the circumstances of former Minister Katherine Zappone’s potential appointment as a UN envoy.

Kieran was joined by former Government Press Secretary Mandy Johnson, Kieran Cunningham, Chief Sports Writer, and columnist with the Daily Star, political commentator John McGuirk and John Downing, Political Columnist, Irish Independent...

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