Tánaiste: SF offering no alternatives to paying bondholders

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has today criticised Sinn Féin for walking out of the Dáil after the Government's refusal to debate the €700m payment to Anglo bondholders.

There were angry scenes in the Dáil, when Taoiseach Enda Kenny defended the payment, saying a failure to honour the debt would have hampered Ireland's efforts to get a €10bn interest rate reduction in the future.