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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Danny De Vaal

Irish taxpayers foot €380k bill to wine and dine foreign dignitaries - €50k spent on wine alone

Taxpayers forked out more than €380,000 to keep visiting dignitaries topped up with food and wine, the Irish Mirror can reveal.

Documents show there were 212 events listed in almost eight years between January 2015 and last October.

During this time, the Department of Foreign Affairs spent €334,559.88 on catering.

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