Politics
Tánaiste's senior advisor says claims by Robert Watt over Holohan secondment ‘grossly innacurate’
Deirdre Gillane said that Watt’s assertion that she was aware of the move was “wholly without foundation”
Tánaiste Micheál Martin’s most senior adviser described claims that she had been briefed about Holohan’s proposed secondment to Trinity College Dublin in advance as “grossly inaccurate and unwarranted.”
Deirdre Gillane, Martin’s chief of staff, has worked with him for more than 20 years during his time in government and in opposition.
But she has been drawn into a row about the planned appointment of Dr Tony Holohan to a Trinity College post last year, which ...
