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EU Commissioner and former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan has defended the number of meetings he has held with local lobby groups. The former minister has been named among a handful of EU commissioners who had a “disproportionately large” number of meetings with lobbyists and business groups from their home countries, according to a group that […]