Labour TDs defend Broughan’s ‘Titanic’ remarks

LABOUR TDs have defended Tommy Broughan’s right to his opinions after he compared Taoiseach Enda Kenny to the captain of the Titanic steering toward the iceberg of “national bankruptcy and ruin”.

In a Dáil debate on the Jobs Initiative, Mr Broughan said he agreed with the “powerful and accurate analysis by Professor Morgan Kelly” who predicted that Ireland will have a debt mountain of €250 billion by 2014.

The Dublin North East TD said “Professor Kelly’s prediction of imminent national bankruptcy has, as expected, been shrugged off by the Government, which is still negotiating desperately just to get a 1% cut in the bailout interest rate. President Sarkozy is still saying: ‘Non’.