TDs’ language to be checked

FOUL-MOUTHED TDs will be forced to mind their language under a new code of conduct.

A marked drop in Dáil standards in recent months has seen one deputy yell “F*** you!” twice at a colleague and another TD shout out, “Who’s the cougar?” shortly after a visiting female Australian parliamentarian was introduced to the Dáil.

The “cougar” incident prompted Fine Gael justice spokesman Charlie Flanagan to write to the Dáil Ceann Comhairle urging that the decline in standards be reversed.