Irish Examiner view: Dáil disorder discouraging at such a fraught time

Further turmoil is to be expected

Social Democrats deputy leader Cian O'Callaghan, Green Party leader Roderic O'Gorman, leader of Solidarity-People Before Profit Richard Boyd Barrett, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, Labour leader Ivana Bacik, and Independent Ireland leader Michael Collins outside Goveernment Builings, Dublin, declaring they had no confidence in Verona Murphy.

The ongoing turmoil in Leinster House reached something of a watershed yesterday when the opposition parties called on Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy to resign.

Readers could be minded to focus on Independent TD Michael Lowry, who appeared to use two fingers to make an immediately recognisable gesture in the Dáil Chamber, an image which swiftly assumed viral status.