World of Politics with Harry McGee

This week’s column is brought to you from under the bus where Jim Gavin’s presidential campaign finished up. Normally in the week that’s in it, I’d be sharing exciting facts and figures about the Budget and the destination of the €9.4 billion, and the new duties put on a packet of fags (or vapes in this week’s example) and what it all means in terms of hard cash.

But not this week – because this budget was completely overshadowed by Jim Gavin’s dramatic withdrawal.

The story took fire over the weekend as details poured out.........

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