A pointed parliamentary question requesting Minister Charlie McConalogue’s diary entries for the previous months caught my eye this week.

Diligently I went through it, wondering could this be the unshaking of Minister for Agriculture number three?

Eventually, The Dealer rang TD Thomas Pringle to figure out why the question had been asked.

Turns out the minister just hadn’t been publishing his diary entries and this had annoyed Thomas.

Either that or Thomas is keeping McConalogue’s diary code for the Dáil sheebeen firmly to himself.

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