TDs’ feud flares up in Battle of the Tearoom

THE battle will go down in history as The Battle of the Tearoom, the latest episode in the longstanding and poisonously bitter feud between two prominent Fianna Fáil TDs.

Junior minister Michael Ahern and former junior minister Ned O’Keeffe are ostensibly constituency colleagues in Cork East.

But the enmity between the two men is well catalogued. There have been a number of altercations, including one incident during the 2007 election campaign.