In November 2008, an article by Shane Ross and Nick Webb published in the Sunday Independent, lifted the lid on the lavish expenses regime that existed among certain members of the State training and employment authority - FÁS. There were details of taxpayers' money being squandered on top hotels, fine dining, golf outings, beauty treatments, pay-per-view movies and even business-class travel for spouses. Their exposé was to rock the Irish political world and caused the public to react with absolute fury
