Coveney: ‘I just reflected views of angry voters’

Deputy Simon Coveney is standing over his comments about the Taoiseach’s poor radio performance, and revealed his number of Twitter followers had increased five-fold — from 200 to 1,000.

He was attending the Share Your Ideas barbecue at Blackrock Castle where people got the chance to meet politicians from Fine Gael and put their views to the Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny after members of the public were invited to submit questions to a suggestion box and Deputy Kenny will respond to everyone individually.