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Monday nights at The Tap. Five little words that have come to roll off the tongue with all the ease and comfort of a best friend s name, for so many musicians a.
She was dragging it out. I know that you probably would have seen a good bit of that material as well. Umm, I ve had the benefit, I suppose, of having seen the material unredacted.
What had she seen? Umm… Now, from what I have looked at so far, I haven t been… I haven t seen any evidence of wrongdoing.
How hard had she looked? Umm, but the question is, she said, where do we go from here?
The Department of Agriculture and Food said it expected to close its files on the €165,000 Cooley peninsula ewe premium fraud uncovered during the foot-and-mouth crisis by the end of the month. However, no prosecutions have been taken yet against about 20 farmers who had submitted false claims for 2,000 ewes which were found to be bogus when the peninsula s flocks had to be slaughtered in late March last year.
John Doe took a last drag from his cigarette, stubbed the butt into a tray and stepped from the terrace to the laptop on his desk. It was a balmy summer s evening in August 2017 and he had spent months thinking about his job at the Department of Agriculture and the right thing to do about some very inconvenient truths. Now he was doing it: "Dear Minister, pursuant to the Protected Disclosures Act 2014, I wish to make the following Protected Disclosures."
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