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Wed 04 Apr 2003McCreevy on alert for April Fool's Day
DAIL SKETCH/Frank McNally: The Minister for Finance was "a very honest man", said Labour's Joan Burton. Fine Gael agreed. If there was one criticism you could never level at Charlie McCreevy, suggested Richard Bruton, it was reluctance to take responsibility for his decisions.
Mr McCreevy listened to the compliments from the joint committee on finance and the public service with a puzzled look, perhaps wondering if this had something to do with April 1st. Either that or the Opposition spokespeople were taking a cue from Mark Antony's speech at the funeral of Julius Caesar. Brutus was an honourable man, too.
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