Willie stay or Willie go takes low road out

NOT for the first time there were two faces of Willie O’Dea on display yesterday – but which would survive the night, Willie Stay or Willie Go?

Willie Stay began the day with the upper hand, but then Willie Go started shooting his mouth off again and his fate was sealed.

Willie announced he’d been the real victim in Tapegate – never mind the sitting Defence Minister had dripped poison into the ear of a Limerick journalist, insisting a political rival was running a brothel – a totally untrue statement intended to warp the democratic process – Mr O’Dea was the injured party in all this. Why could no one feel his pain?