Blubbering Alan Kelly still labouring over party poll data report leak

Labour’s deputy leader — and Ireland’s self-styled saviour — was said to be ‘moist of eye’ and ‘emotional’ at a parliamentary party meeting as he protested his innocence over the leaking of poll data, writes Shaun Connolly.

The ego may have finally crash-landed, but political bruiser-turned-crybaby Alan Kelly’s opinion of himself can remain as unfeasibly high as ever because he is still what he always believed himself to be: The future of parliamentary democracy — in Kosovo, anyway.

The breakaway Balkan republic’s national assembly has had the novel experience of MPs setting off tear gas in the chamber no less than five times in the past few weeks.