Close to 10am last Thursday, December 4, when he completed his opening address in committee room number three of Leinster House, Barry Fox surely expected tough questions would follow from members of the Public Accounts Committee. The acting chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) was there to face questioning on a special Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) report, the latest in a series of reviews into the embattled agency since Senator Sean Kyne dropped a bombshell in the upper house in May 2022 about governance and financial issues at the agency. Still, Fox and his colleagues were clearly not…

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