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Minister for Justice Alan Shatter’s remark about Independent TD Mick Wallace “has had a political impact far beyond its seemingly throwaway nature. It has raised serious issue surrounding ministerial power, rights and responsibilities.” Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Will Shatter pay the penalty for hypocrisy?

The word hypocrisy has been bandied around in the continuing row over penalty points. It has been applied (correctly) to Roscommon Deputy Luke (...)

Independent Wexford TD Mick Wallace: ’unaware’ of incident referred to by Minister for Justice Alan Shatter. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Wallace accuses Shatter of trying to discredit him

Independent TD Mick Wallace has alleged Minister for Justice Alan Shatter is seeking to ‘discredit’ him by revealing he escaped penalty points(...)

Luke Ming Flanagan was one of the people who had “made something of a circus” in relation to whistleblowers’ allegations about quashed penalty points, said Minister for Justice Alan Shatter. Photograph: Frank Miller
Flanagan ‘did not engage’ with penalty points inquiry

The Independent Roscommon TD Luke Ming Flanagan refused to meet or engage with gardaí investigating the circumstances i(...)

A reduce speed traffic sign on the N4 in Co Kildare. Three Garda officers under investigation over the improper quashing of penalty points had cleared more than 600 driving licences over a three-and-a-half year period. Photograph: Haydn West/PA
Penalty points report finds procedures were not followed

Three Garda officers under investigation over the improper quashing of penalty points had cleared more than 600 driving licences over a three-a(...)

Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter: said members of An Garda Siochana had a duty to operate a penalty points and fixed ticket charge system for motoring offences that the public could have confidence in.
Shatter concerned at inappropriate use of Garda’s Pulse system

Minister for Justice and Defence Alan Shatter has said he expects to receive a report in coming days from Garda Headquarters following an investiga(...)

Labour Candidate Eoin Holmes canvassing at Rathoath, Co Meath, last Wednesday. Photograph: Eric Luke
Stories of quiet desperation from a once-gilded generation in Meath East

If the voters of Meath East think they’ve had it bad over the last three weeks – assailed from all angles by people with sympathetic faces and (...)

Ming with his people: Independent TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan campaigning at Hyde Park, Roscommon. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Little support for Ming stance in home town

Luke Ming Flanagan was hoping yesterday that “the people who elected me will forgive me” but there was(...)

Luke Flanagan and Joe Higgins at a Campaign against Household & Water Taxes protest on Dublin’s Grafton Street. Photograph: Alan Betson
How Luke Ming Flanagan explained away his penalty points

Luke Ming Flanagan's extraordinary self-serving speech to the Dáil last night would get douze points for sheer neck, but we're going to quash them (...)

How Luke Ming Flanagan quashed his penalty points

Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s Dáil statement on Tuesday was an extraordinary performance, drawing an almost uniformly negative public reaction. In loc(...)

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