How well do you know your Dáil rows?

Question

December 2015. Former Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett, whose shouting matches with TDs were to become the stuff of legend, spends three full minutes lambasting a livid Michael McNamara (Labour) - but what was McNamara so worked up about?

Answer 1

He objected to Enda Kenny audibly chuckling during the Dáil prayer

Answer 2

He wasn't happy at his own government railroading legislation through the Dáil via the guillotine

Answer 3

He wanted to make a point of order about what Mick Wallace was wearing that day during the order of business

Answer 4

He wasn't happy about the amount of speaking time he'd been afforded

Answer 5

He told Murphy to get stuffed

Answer 6

He told him to 'protest this' and then gave him the middle finger

Answer 7

He kept shouting 'Jobstown guilty' at Murphy until he became quiet

Answer 8

He told Murphy to 'toddle along'

Answer 9

Haughey refused to discuss a television programme on the Irish beef industry

Answer 10

Quinn and Bruton told Haughey his suit was 'ill-becoming of this house'

Answer 11

Haughey and Bruton kept stealing Labour's speaking time

Answer 12

It was Haughey's birthday and he insisted that a boisterous rendition of 'Happy Birthday' be sung by all deputies present

Answer 13

'Get fucked Deputy Stagg'

Answer 14

'You're nothing but a shite Deputy Stagg'

Answer 15

'You're just a bollocks Deputy Stagg'

Answer 16

'Fuck you Deputy Stagg, fuck you'

Answer 17

A pain in the hole

Answer 18

All talk and no trousers

Answer 19

A bar-room brawler

Answer 20

A cheeky get

Answer 21

They felt White was stalling on an important childcare bill

Answer 22

He kept responding to their questions with 'you might very well say that, I couldn't possibly comment'

Answer 23

White accused the pair of only getting irate when they had a vested interest in a subject

Answer 24

There was nothing to talk about on the Dáil agenda

Answer 25

Leo Varadkar and Willie O'Dea

Answer 26

Alan Kelly and Ruth Coppinger

Answer 27

Michael McGrath and Michelle Mulherin

Answer 28

Finian McGrath and Jerry Buttimer

Answer 29

'Would you ever cop yourself on deputy'

Answer 30

'This feels like deja vu deputy'

Answer 31

'On your bike deputy Mathews'

Answer 32

'Would you get a copy of the standing orders on the way out and read them'

Answer 33

'When I want advice from someone like you Deputy Collins, I'll ask for it'

Answer 34

'That is rich coming from the likes of you'

Answer 35

'I did not come in here to do what your mother should have done and put manners on you'

Answer 36

'Kiss your mother with that mouth, Deputy Collins?'

Answer 37

MacSharry claimed Michael Healy Rae had drunk from his glass of water when he wasn't looking

Answer 38

The allocation of Dáil speaking time

Answer 39

Discrepancies in the application of rural development funding

Answer 40

The Healy Raes accused MacSharry of caring about Sligo and nothing else

How well do you know your Dáil rows?

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