Udderly bizarre: McGrath asks Rabbitte to count the tits on Murphy's cow

One would have thought that questions to the Energy and Natural Resources Minister in the Dáil would be a serious affair.

Today they did deal with issues such as rising energy bills and fracking – until Mattie McGrath and Pat Rabbitte also took to trading insults.

Udderly bizarre insults.

"You're like Murphy's cow, with two dry tits, one blind tit, and a sop of milk in the other … that's what you're like, Minister," Mattie McGrath told a bemused Rabbitte.