– yes, Mary Lou – accuses Taoiseach of ‘playing to the gallery’

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Don’t take my word for it, he told people who might be looking in. Go to SinnFein.ie and check it out for yourself.

It was an odd thing to say. But then, this session was unfolding in an interesting way, not least in how a tone of icy civility is developing between the Taoiseach and the woman who wants to be taoiseach. Well. That finished Mary Lou altogether. Has it come to this? That Dáil Éireann has now sunk to the level of a “Taoiseach scouring people’s websites and ...”She searched for the words to describe this shocking development, but inspiration came there none.Deputy McDonald, having made clear her views on the alien idea of TDs playing to the gallery and television audience, moved briskly on.

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