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| | SpinWatch - Irish minister needs some good PR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The woman hired as a communications consultant by the then minister for the environment, Martin Cullen, within three weeks of the 2002 general election, during which she had campaigned and carried out paid work for him, has famously clocked up ?127,775 this year alone, for a three-day week. |
 | | In the meantime, of course, Cullen had been elevated to cabinet level as minister for the environment and in July 2002 had brought her in as his "communications specialist" on ?800 a day plus 21 per cent VAT. |
 | | Cullen's forceful rejection of a Sunday newspaper's suggestion that his relationship with Leech, a married mother of two, went beyond politics or business is generally accepted. |
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