Journalist at the centre of controversy
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Tuesday November 20 2007
JUSTINE Delaney Wilson was said to be on holiday as questions were raised about an alleged admission by a Government minister who spoke about using cocaine. However, last night it was revealed that she no longer has the recording of the admission.
The controversy centres on an alleged interview in Buswell's Hotel in October 2006, where a minister said: "I certainly do take drugs -- just coke though -- regularly enough. I am certainly not the only one around here [in the Dail] that does. The hypocrisy that surrounds it really galls me.
"We all know how widespread it is, in bars, offices and over there [gestures to the Dail]. But we pretend to be horrified when we read the figures in the papers or hear about rampant abuse among professionals."
Ms Delaney Wilson is a freelance journalist. 'High Society', published by Gill and Macmillian, is her first book.
- Grainne Cunningham
