Dáil tiff on lilies an emblem of hypocrisy?

Having taken offence at the wearing of Easter lilies by TDs in the Dáil recently, Fine Gael party chairman, Charlie Flanagan, asked the ceann comhairle to rule on standing orders regarding the wearing of emblems in the Dáil.

Last November, FG’s Frank Feighan became the first TD to wear a poppy in the Dáil for 16 years, following Labour Party TD Emmet Stagg and Fine Gael’s Paddy Harte and Brian Hayes.

Mr Feighan, chair of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, said he wore a poppy inside the Dáil as a symbolic gesture of inclusiveness and to remember the Great War dead.