TD objects to ‘piss up’ rugby comments

A leading Fianna Fáil TD has has objected to comments made by his party colleague that those behind Ireland’s failed Rugby World Cup bid “couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery”.

TD objects to ‘piss up’ rugby comments
Thu, 23 Nov, 2017 - 00:00
Daniel McConnell

In the Dáil on Wednesday, Meath West TD Shane Cassells lashed the comments made by veteran Senator Terry Leydon as “insulting and disgraceful”.

Speaking during questions to the Minister for Sport, Shane Ross, on the failed bid to host the competition in 2023, Mr Cassells began by excoriating his colleague.

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