Insults hurled across the Dail as election fever takes hold of TDs

Amid charges of histrionics, cuckoo land hysteria and orders to shut up, the chamber descended into farce once again as leaders’ questions became a slagging match rather than a debate about national matters.
Giddy TDs look all too eager to cut and run and get on with the election. And as Tánaiste Joan Burton took leaders’ questions, boyish bickering again broke out.