Blueshirts + Greens = very silly who said it

LIAR! Liar! The election finally caught fire.

The dying day of the campaign saw a spectacularly stupid spat between Fine Gael and the Greens plunge Irish politics to a bizarre new low.

Never mind mass unemployment, a home repossession explosion and a health service in crisis, they decided to slug it out over who said what to whom about Sinn Féin two years ago.