'It doesn't take very long for your balaclava to slip'

Publshed 18 December 2018

There were tense scenes in the Dáil as deputies used Leaders’ Questions to discuss the high-profile eviction case in Roscommon.

The exchanges between Pearse Doherty and the Taoiseach ended with Leo Varadkar telling the Sinn Féin TD that “it doesn’t take very long for your balaclava to slip”.

He had criticised Doherty for not condemning the group of people who had attended the house at the centre of an eviction order in Strokestown last week “armed with baseball bats [who] injured three or four other people, set cars alight and caused an animal to be shot dead”.

Varadkar claimed that “when it comes to law and order” and the Sinn Féin party, “It doesn’t take very long for your balaclava to slip" https://jrnl.ie/4402664

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