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Sat 10 Oct 2008MIRIAM LORD'S WEEK
Kenny backtracks on 'populist nonsense'; gamesmanship on hairshirts; TDs disgruntled at Biffo's tone; lucky escape for Denis O'Brien; socialists turn their fire on McCreevy; Norris's money in a safe place; parsing a banker's Yes
WHEN IS populist nonsense not populist nonsense? The answer, according to Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, is when it's "a symbolic gesture." Last Wednesday on Today FM's Last Wordprogramme, presenter Matt Cooper remarked in an interview with Kenny that Paul Gogarty had just called on politicians to take an 8 per cent pay cut.
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