'Clearly hadn't read the manifesto': Micheál Martin hits back at Fine Gael barb

Tánaiste Micheál Martin, with Jack Chambers at the launch of Fianna Fail’s General Election Manifesto: Moving Forward Together, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. Picture: Damien Eagers

Tánaiste Micheál Martin has accused Justice Minister Helen McEntee of not reading Fianna Fáil’s manifesto, after she described it as “back-of-the-matchbox” style politics.

In a statement on Monday, Ms McEntee said that Fianna Fáil’s manifesto contained “little substance” and that it could “scupper the economic progress that we have made in recent years”.