SINN FEIN's Pearse Doherty was forced to amend his official website last night after wrongly claiming he is a qualified "civil engineer".
The rising star of the party was left red-faced after claims he 'did a Bertie' and embellished his academic background.
Both the Oireachtas and Sinn Fein websites had to change the Donegal South West TD's biography to read "civil engineer technician" and not "civil engineer" -- a title which he is not entitled to claim.
Mr Doherty last night insisted there was "no malice" behind the missing and crucial reference to "technician".
The newly elected Sinn Fein TD, who is trying to win back a seat he only won in November, insisted he has always been "upfront" about quitting a three-year engineering college course after just two years.
He is entitled to call himself a technician, but not an engineer, on foot of his studies at DIT.
Welfarite
Sorry to ruin a good story !!
Pearse Doherty was elected to the Dail late last year while Ivor is a member of the Seanad and would not be in the Dail chamber. The two would never have occasion to be having an exchange, certainly not one involving the Ceann Comhairle !!
Welfarite
Sorry to ruin a good story !!
Pearse Doherty was elected to the Dail late last year while Ivor is a member of the Seanad and would not be in the Dail chamber. The two would never have occasion to be having an exchange, certainly not one involving the Ceann Comhairle !!
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