Politics
Damien English resigns as junior minister after failing to declare property ownership
The Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise informed Taoiseach Leo Varadkar of his decision last night
Damien English, the junior enterprise and trade minister, has resigned and admitted that he failed to declare ownership of a residential property.
The Fine Gael TD for Meath West said yesterday his non-declaration of a property in Castlemartin, Co Meath, on the Dáil register of interests was within the rules laid down by the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo).
It came following an article in The Ditch, the online publication whose reporting on Robert ...