Labour TDs vent fury over Taoiseach remarks

FURY among Labour TDs over how Enda Kenny “humiliated” them in the Dáil provoked angry scenes at a tense pre-budget meeting with Eamon Gilmore.

Backbenchers used a gathering of Labour TDs and senators to express anger at the Taoiseach’s remarks, which they took as an attack on their honesty.

Coalition relations plunged to a low after the Taoiseach said, “I will make an honest leader of the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore” in response to a question on Labour’s now threatened election pledge to protect child benefit from cuts.