TD urges parties to fund Dáil counselling service

One of the Dáil’s leading backbench TDs has called on all political parties to fund a counselling service to help TDs and senators cope with some of the abuse they receive from the public.

John Halligan was speaking on the first anniversary of the death of Fine Gael junior minister Shane McEntee, 56.

At his funeral on Christmas Eve last year Mr McEntee’s brother Gerry hit out at anonymous online attacks on the Meath East TD which occurred in the weeks after the budget.