Alan Kelly ‘acts like only one in Cabinet’

Tipperary TD Noel Coonan has hit out at constituency colleague Alan Kelly for acting like the “only person in government”.

Mr Coonan is the second TD to become embroiled in a war of words with the environment minister this week after Independent TD Michael Lowry described him as “arrogant”.

Yesterday, Mr Coonan fiercely criticised Mr Kelly at a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting in Leinster House. Speaking after the meeting he said: “If he was that concerned about Labour going into government after the next election he should have had a better relationship with the members of the other party in government.