Tánaiste trades blows in Dáil over Priory Hall and bin service issues

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore traded bitter blows with opponents after being accused of abandoning vulnerable families.

The Labour leader became embroiled in angry Dáil exchanges with Mary Lou McDonald and Joe Higgins over the plight of people made homeless by the Priory Hall evacuation, as well as the bin collection controversy in Dublin.

Mr Gilmore rounded on Ms McDonald, insisting the Priory Hall residents had been failed in the first instance by a “Sinn Féin developer”.