Tonight with Vincent Browne

Participants on Thursday, 8, October 2009: Ken Whitaker, Mary Daly, Justine McCarthy and Ian Keogh. Texts and emails were about Ken Whitaker, Secretary of the Department of Finance from 1956 to 1968. Also texts about corruption and wanton expenditure on the part of politicians.

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Having read and heard so much about TK Whitaker it is tremendous to see him on your show……what a sharp mind! Does he want to make a comeback and help us now? Rossa McDermott

Texts and emails to tonight with Vincent Browne on Wednesday, 7 October, 2009. Participants: Sam Smyth, Vincent P Martin of the Green Party, Pat Fitzgerald, also of the Green Party, Marie Louise O’Donnell and Lynda O’Shea Farren.

Subject: the Greens and participation in government and the newspapers’ coverage of the John O’Donoghue controversy.

Contributors to the programme: Fionan Sheehan, Tom Reddy, Terry Prone and Roisin Shorthall.
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A huge volume of texts were received by 'Tonight with Vincent Browne' on October 5th following revelations of further massive wastage of public funds by John O'Donoghue during his time as Ceann Comhairle. Not a single text was supportive of John O’Donoghue. Here is a sample.