‘Highly unlikely some TDs haven’t taken drugs’

Outspoken TD Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan claimed other Dáil members take drugs as he defended his decision to reveal he has experiences of LSD, cocaine, and ecstasy.

The Independent TD hit back at suggestions he was sending out the wrong message to young people by saying he was being more honest than his colleagues who are not being truthful.

“If people want people in the Dáil who have never done anything like I have done, well, then you’re not going to get many people in the Dáil.