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Big Read: Parts 1 and 2 of Paul Kimmage's special report on the troubling case of the whistleblower in the Department of Agriculture


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. ....

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Controlling the narrative

John Doe stood on the terrace pulling on a cigarette and stiffening with the cold. November is not the darkest month but it felt like the darkest hour. There was Covid, obviously, and the general despondency of the second lockdown, but it was his job and what they had done to him that was tossing and turning him at night. ....

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Big Read: Part 2 of Paul Kimmage's special report examining the troubling case of the whistleblower in the Department of Agriculture


What is your occupation?
Farmer, director of Glanbia PLC and Co-op, director of GIL (Glanbia Ingredients Ireland), director of Carmac Construction Ltd.
What kind of farming are you involved in?
Dairy and pigs.
Approximately 25 years.
Approximately three years.
4010481.
To Glanbia under the name of William Carroll and partners.
What is the name of the quota holder in Glanbia?
It s in the partnership s name. It s partnership number 10, I think.
(William Carroll left the room to check a detail re the above question. On his return at 5.02pm, I readministered the caution.)
Was milk collected from your farm and assigned to Clongowes Wood farm for quota purposes? ....

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