War of words over Enda’s ‘no go’

The failure of Taoiseach Enda Kenny to appear on tonight’s Prime Time Seanad abolition debate has resulted in a war of words between political parties with Fine Gael accusing RTÉ of “trying to artificially manufacture a leaders’ debate.”

Seventeen days after RTÉ issued invitations to both political parties, Fine Gael last night still had not nominated anyone for the one-hour Montrose debate against Micheál Martin to be hosted by Miriam O’Callaghan.

Last Friday week, Enda Kenny told RTÉ he would not take part in the leaders’ debate.