‘Obfuscation is a difficult weapon to abandon’

McGuinness and Cowen clash over FF water approach

john McGuinness (left) and Barry Cowen

The Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness clashed with the party’s housing spokesman Barry Cowen over water charges legislation in a scathing email exchange last week.

McGuinness has raised several issues with Fianna Fáil’s approach to the Water Services Bill, which will refund water charges and implement charges for excessive waste, at parliamentary party (PP) meetings in recent weeks.

His latest intervention led to a bitter email exchange with Cowen that was copied to ...