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There was a highly unfortunate (and hilarious) typo on RTÉ News earlier this evening

It looks like Fine Gael’s Simon Harris has a new job.
11.00pm, 14 Dec 2015
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HAS SIMON HARRIS landed himself a new gig?

Looks like it.

On this evening’s Six One News, RTÉ listed the Fine Gael TD’s position as…

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Minister for State, Office of Pubic Works

And it didn’t go unnoticed.

*immature chuckle*

For what it’s worth, RTÉ News copped the spelling error in time for the Nine O’Clock News and Harris was correctly described as “Minister of State, Office of Public Works” in the later bulletin.

Phew. 

As for what Harris makes of the whole thing?

Well, he’s not thrilled by the prospect of balancing two government portfolios…

Written by Amy O’Connor and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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