Tuesday, December 12, 2006

It was 20 years in Ireland

Today's Financial Times, columnist Gideon Rachman --

The European Union's financial services action plan is not the ideal topic for an after-dinner speech. So it was perhaps unsurprising that an audience of City of London financiers gave Charlie McCreevy, the EU's internal market commissioner, a rough ride when he attempted to address them on that subject at a dinner last month. When the comedienne Ruby Wax, who followed Mr McCreevy to the podium, remarked: "He spoke for 20 minutes; it seemed like 20 years", she was reportedly greeted with riotous applause.

This Charlie McCreevy.

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