FF pledges to scrap controversial communications unit

The new unit was set up in the Department of the Taoiseach over the summer with the government arguing that it would be non-partisan

Fianna Fáil will shut down Leo Varadkar’s controversial new communications unit if in government after the next election.

The party’s leader Micheál Martin has dubbed the Strategic Communications Unit (SCU) the ‘central spin unit’ and his party has now pledged to shut it down if Fianna Fáil wins the next election.

The new unit was set up in the Department of the Taoiseach over the summer with the government arguing that it would ...