Fine Gael TDs issue warning on Michael Lowry pact

A host of Fine Gael TDs have spoken out strongly against the party doing a post-election deal with Independent TD Michael Lowry in order to form a Government, saying it would do enormous damage to the party.

One TD, Kerry’s Brendan Griffin, went as far as to say he would prefer to go back to the country in a second election rather than do a deal with the controversial Tipperary TD.

Mr Lowry, who was forced to resign as a Fine Gael minister in disgrace in the 1990s, said Independents like him could hold the balance of power in the next Dáil after the General Election.