Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

The last time I saw such an announcement was when a ship carrying 69 tonnes of Irish beef sailed to Egypt in the weeks before the 2002 general election. That the journey in question was not followed by further shipments is second only to the fate of the Marie Celeste among the great nautical mysteries of our age. The public was fooled once but it will not be fooled again.

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