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RTE Conspiring Against the Left

P. Breathnach · 2009-02-20 10:32:33

On Pat Kenny's programme this morning, in order to have a balanced debate between left-wing and right-wing thinking, RTE has handed the left-wing torch to Joe Higgins. Yet again. He gets a lot of air-time. Higgins has two good qualities for public life: the ability to plan and deliver some good lines, and the energy of a…

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#32 22-02-2009 2:16pm
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DublinWriter wrote: »

a) When he was a TD, he only accepted the national industrial wage as payment and donated the balance of his TD salary to charity.

I'm nearly positive the rest of that money is given to the Socialist Party, not a charity. The Sinn Féin TDs take the average industrial wage as well.

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