Fas Is About Job Creation for Friends and Fianna Fail Cronies Just Like the Rest Our Public Sector

Daily Mail › November 28, 2008

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THE journey from the Dublin of mass unemployment to the nail bars of Cocoa Beach has been the downfall for FAS director Rody Molloy. It may yet prove the end for his agency, as it ought to.

But the ascent of civil servants from austerity to the sort of escapades that might just about make bank executives blush is also the perfect parable for the public sector through the loose decade of the Celtic Tiger.

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Fas Is About Job Creation for Friends and Fianna Fail Cronies Just Like the Rest Our Public Sector

By now, the five-figure banquets and business-class flights for spouses are slipping into the cold light of day. As the perfect, ghastly symbol for how the public sector has run amok, the revelations of what FAS's expense account jockeys have been up to with taxpayers' money is a fitting embodiment of what has gone wrong with ...

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