Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley

When the Government announced a list of school projects to go to tender or construction in 2026 and 2027, Education Minister Hildegarde Naughton came under fire from all sides.

For every one of the 105 school communities happy to be included in the list, there were hundreds more who were aggrieved that their schools were overlooked again.

Fianna Fáil backbench TD Malcolm Byrne moaned to the Irish Times that 10 of the projects were in Galway and he whinged that the Minister gave priority to her home county.

Let’s leave aside that you’d rarely see a headline in the Irish Times bemoaning a Dublin minister’s investment in projects in the capital. Byrne’s accusation that Hildegarde allocated funding through maroon-tinted glasses to benefit herself electorally was undermined by the facts – just four of........

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