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[Darragh Mc Donagh @darraghmcdonagh]

Simon Coveney told an Oireachtas committee three times that he had deleted no texts relating to champagne-gate.

But his special adviser has now told the OIC that he DID.

It's an offence to destroy a government record under the National Archives Act 1986.

[Darragh Mc Donagh @darraghmcdonagh]

A year after Simon Coveney told an Oireachtas committee that he did not delete texts relating to a champagne bash at the DFA, his own special adviser has landed him in trouble by telling an OIC investigation that he DID.

Pick up today's @irishdailymail for details.