Higgins 'detests' opposing TDs

A maverick TD famous for goading the Taoiseach in the Dáil today said he “detests” what TDs from other political parties stand for.

Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins, who was jailed for a month in 2003 for opposing local bin charges, was recently branded ’a nitwit’ and ’a failed person’ by an enraged Bertie Ahern after a heated parliamentary exchange on rocketing house prices.