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One of Northern Ireland’s most senior medical figures accused the Department of Health (DoH) of “completely misleading” the public about Covid-19 deaths — but weeks prior to that he had himself been heavily criticised, it has emerged.
A former head of the civil service told the Covid inquiry she hadn't deleted any relevant messages from her phone - when in fact she had.
Northern Ireland's chief medical officer referred to Executive ministers as "dysfunctional b******s", it has emerged, as Stormont's shambolic inner workings have been laid bare.
Civil Service boss Jayne Brady is to be quizzed about why many ministerial phones were wiped of messages and civil servants then altered minutes which stated that fact.
Just a few years before the Troubles began, the Home Office knew so little about the Orange Order that it resorted to an encyclopaedia before tendering advice to the Queen.