Varadkar and Creighton in ‘good child’ spat

An angry “he says, she says” political war of words has erupted between Transport Minister Leo Varadkar and rebel TD Lucinda Creighton.

The outspoken former Europe Minister, who was ousted from the Fine Gael parliamentary group for defying the leadership over X case legislation, sparked the public spat when she accused Mr Varadkar of telling her to keep her head down and behave like a “good child” if she wanted to get back in the party fold.

The transport minister hit back, saying with “hand on my heart” that he had not given that advice to Ms Creighton, before going on to claim she had betrayed a confidential conversation, and that he was “disappointed” in her.