Former Clerk of the Dáil attacks ‘club culture’
Retired civil servant says there is a danger of a crisis on a par with the Westminster MPs' expenses scandal of 2009.
By Michael Brennan
Political
Correspondent
A former senior civil servant in Leinster House has mounted an attack on the “club culture” mentality which allows TDs to decide on Dáil bar closing times themselves.
Kieran Coughlan, who retired last year as the Clerk of the Dáil after 24 years, warned there were a small number of “old school” TDs and Senators who did not want Leinster House to be run too independently from their ...
