McGrath: My removal is sinister attack on free speech

REBEL TD Finian McGrath last night branded his removal from a key Oireachtas committee as a “sinister attack on free speech”.

The independent deputy spoke out as he was bundled off the justice committee following his withdrawal of support for the coalition over the medical cards crisis.

The Government was quick to take revenge on him and Joe Behan, who dramatically resigned from the Fianna Fáil party over the same issue, sparking a full-blown Dáil crisis in the process.