And so, in the end, Robert Troy bowed to the inevitable. His chances of retaining his junior ministry had been withered by degrees, while his attempts to provide answers about his property interests just seemed to raise yet more questions. The Fianna Fail politician had hoped to weather the storm. In the end, it was the nature of the storm – botched public disclosures, questions about planning, proposing increases for state housing payments he was in receipt of – that engulfed him. Troy accepted he made mistakes but said he refused to be vilified as a landlord. This was not…

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