Jack Chambers losing the plot – #GE2020 focusing minds. 😇#cblive pic.twitter.com/tmDUVxACK2
— Mick Caul (@caulmick) February 3, 2020
Poor Jack Chambers – I really hope someone is collecting him after the show. It’s very late. #Cblive #GE2020 pic.twitter.com/8Aos3wOVTN
— Mick Caul (@caulmick) February 3, 2020
Last night.
On RTÉ One’s Claire Byrne Live, Ms Byrne held a climate debate.
During the debate, Fianna Fáil’s Jack Chambers took issue with Ms Byrne’s questioning of his party’s climate change policies and said she was being “very unfair” and “disingenuous”.
He accused of her trying to “undermine” the party’s climate action plan by raising the fact that their manifesto pertaining to climate change contains promises about child pornography, Traveller rights and female representation. Mr Chambers argued that those matters come under the remit of the “broad” line department.
Mr Chambers said:
“It’s unfortunate RTÉ spends all it’s time looking at polls and process and not looking at the issues and climate action.”
Later, speaking about Sinn Féin, he said:
“They oppose everything to be populist and it’s a new kind of Trumpism in Irish politics.”
Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Bróin, who was sitting on the same panel with Mr Chambers, told him to “be serious”.
Mr Chambers replied:
“You want the public to take you seriously? I think you need to be serious. What about, what about, what about, what about the Special Criminal Court? What about the Special Criminal Court? Do you support the Special Criminal Court in this country?”
He then turned to Ms Byrne:
“You see, these are the hard questions. The media has spent the last two weeks talking about polls and if Mary Lou McDonald is in or out of the debate. I’m glad she’s in the debate tomorrow night [tonight] so she can face the scrutiny because it’s all about the big drama and obsession with Sinn Féin.”
Sounds familiar?
Watch back in full here
Meanwhile…
From front page of today’s Irish Times
This morning.
The Irish Times reports in full on its Ispos/MBRI poll which puts Sinn Féin at 25%, Fianna Fáil at 23% and Fine Gael at 20%.
The results were announced at 10pm last night.
