Alarm as Rabbitte turns air blue

HE came to denounce foul-mouthed yob culture but instead Labour leader Pat Rabbitte left his own four-letter imprint on proceedings.

As a fire alarm disrupted the launch of his party’s survey on neighbours from hell, Mr Rabbitte let out a despairing: “Ah, f..k’s sake!”

The fellow TDs flanking him, Brendan Howlin and Mary Upton, kept their cool as they sat helplessly by while Mr Rabbitte turned the air from red to blue.