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Mon 05 May 2010Politics marred by donations, says DPP
POLITICAL CORRUPTION won’t be eliminated “so long as the private financing of political parties is permitted”, Director of Public Prosecutions James Hamilton has said.
In a wide-ranging address to the annual Burren Law School in Ballyvaughan, Mr Hamilton spoke of the “absurdity” of the Mahon tribunal still inquiring into matters of “urgent” public importance 13 years after it was established.
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