No cheer for Cassidy’s drink remark

A NON-DRINKING senator has irritated colleagues by suggesting several of them are in no position to debate alcohol abuse because they like a drink themselves.

Fianna Fáil senator Donie Cassidy, who is a pioneer, told the Seanad: “One cannot speak the sermon unless one lives by the Gospel.”

Labour senator Alan Kelly last night dismissed his suggestion as “daft” and “patent nonsense”.