Canvass Trail

When it comes to parish pump politics, nobody in Laois-Offaly can lay a glove on Charlie Flanagan.

Canvass Trail
Fri, 11 Feb, 2011 - 00:00

PRIVATE MEMBERS BILL

In Castlebar, Co Mayo, yesterday, Newstalk’s Henry McKean tackled the Fine Gael leader’s wife Fionnuala on the small matter of her husband’s underwear, inquiring, as Henry is wont to do, if Enda wears Calvin Klein pants.

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