Taoiseach likened to Haughey amid furore over Seanad ‘stroke’

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been compared to arch manipulator Charles Haughey by a Fine Gael TD outraged over "stroke politics" surrounding a Seanad by-election.

Seán Conlan said there was a climate of “fear” within Fine Gael as TDs were too scared to speak out because the leadership would take revenge and “punish” them.

“We are very fearful of the fact there seems to be a situation where the Taoiseach is returning to the days of stroke politics and the days of Charlie Haughey. The Taoiseach’s actions have damaged Fine Gael. It appears to be stroke politics at its worse,” the Cavan-Monaghan TD told RTÉ.