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Pat Leahy and Harry McGee talk to Hugh Linehan about the dramatic events of the last week that were capped on Tuesday with the resignation of tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald, and the questions that remain.
How could such important documents be missed – or was it more sinister than that? Is the Department of Justice facing a reckoning? Why did Leo Varadkar handle this situation as he did?
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