Miriam Lord: Rarely, in the patchy history of enthusiastic Dáil speechifying, have TDs been so eager to get stuck in. Lesser spotted deputies, those mute swans of parliamentary discourse, sashayed into the chamber and spouted with relish
If there was as much as an overspend on Coconut Creams in the Green Room, then they want to know about it.
“You are still failing to get the fundamentals right,” he told Leo Varadkar, who replied by telling Pearse that our fundamentals would be through the floor if Government had followed the advice of Sinn Féin.He promised a substantial tax package and an even bigger public spending programme in October.
Not that it or he mattered, when the place was transfixed by the shocking showbiz scandal still unspooling in Dublin 4. Along with colleagues Brian Stanley, Johnny Brady and Paul Donnelly, Sinn Féin raged about “fat cats at the top of RTÉ living their best life” with their “cock-and-bull stories” and their “cosy consensus and insider culture”.
An old lady told Fianna Fáil’s Jennifer Murnane O’Connor she had lost trust in RTÉ. “As a granny, I felt it very hard when I heard those stories,” she told the TD for Carlow Kilkenny over the weekend.
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