K EIR STARMER’S CHIEF of staff, Cork native Morgan McSweeney, is the highest paid UK Government special adviser, new figures ...

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Morgan McSweeney is paid between £155,000 and £159,999, according to data released by the Cabinet Office on Thursday.

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McSweeney admits there is still more work to be done For him to reach such a level. "It seems that I have done quite a bit of stuff, but in the big picture, I still have a long way to go," he said.

Until this week, Morgan McSweeney, 47, a softly-spoken but intense Irishman with a red beard, has been a background figure, happiest pulling the strings out of view.