Fianna Fáil’s Marc MacSharry started it. But the minute he mentioned the infamous Nazi propagandist’s name, Fine Gael TDs began to roar. “It’s a political charge and drawing an analogy to an actual event in history is fine,” he said, bumptiously. As Marc battled to talk about “the destruction of rural Ireland”, the Fine Gael benches went doolally. Harris continued shouting about anti-Semitism and attacks on victims of the Holocaust and Regina Doherty, the Minister for Social Protection, told MacSharry he was letting his party down.

Source: The Irish Times February 28, 2018 21:56 UTC