Taoiseach Micheál Martin has pointed the finger of blame at senior Department of Health officials for the botched appointment of Dr Tony Holohan to a €187,000 a year Trinity professorship, which he has now turned down.
The Chief Medical Officer was at the centre of a political storm all week, not of his making, when it emerged he was being seconded to Trinity College on the taxpayers’ tab.
The exact details of the job switch were not known by the Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly.
