Dirty dealings afoot in City Council

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday January 08, 2003 14:42 by Unsurprised, but disappointed

There seem to have been some serious behind the scenes negotiations to avoid bringing down Dublin City Council. Allegedly Labour approached the provos and Fine gael and offered a deal whereby one Labour councillor would vote for the charges and one of each of the others would do the same so that the charges would pass but both parties could say they called for No votes. As far as I understand the story the provos said no deal and that all four of theirs would be voting against and I don't know what Fine Gael said.