Department of Foreign Affairs tight-lipped over deleted Zappone texts

Simon Coveney, the foreign affairs minister, said last week he had scrubbed text conversations with the former children’s minister from his phone because it had been previously ‘hacked’

Simopn Coveney will be questioned for details on the hacking at an Oireachtas committee. His department has described it as a “cyber attack”. Picture: Julien Behal