Government’s goon show draws ire of TD frustrated with Dáil questions

THE chins of the political scribes were slumped on their chests when a magical sentence jolted them back into semi-consciousness.

“The crowd of goons on the Government benches might think it very funny,” Bernard Durkan intoned in his stentorian tones, “but this is an abuse of the parliamentary system.”

What had we missed? Noel Dempsey doing his Spike Milligan imitations? Dermot Ahern regaling us with his Peter Sellars routines? Sadly, no. Mr Durkan was just making one of his generic assaults on government.