‘Bitches’ rule the day as TDs lurch into 12-week holiday

THERE were more references to “bitches” in the Dáil yesterday than you’d find in an old school, hard-core rap record from the 1990s.

The hip hop ghosts of Notorious BIG, Tupac and Biggie Smalls would have felt right at home as the B-word dominated discussions – but, thankfully, gun control was not being debated along with dog breeding otherwise the air would have been overtaken by non-stop talk of “bitches” and “Uzis” and it really would have felt like being trapped in a recording studio in South Central LA.

The Greens and Fianna Fáil insisted bitches were bitches and that was that, but Fine Gael, being a rather more well bred party, said you couldn’t really be a bitch unless you had puppies – and they spent more than half an hour rowing about this.