Seán Russell

He was very cross about it, um, accused Sinn Féin of being a party that had, had historically supported Nazi Germany.

The, the legacy of Sean Russell being brought up in, in the Dáil in what were colorful, uh, and lively exchanges.

And then there was a big row on the order of business, as you say, over how much time is being allocated towards the, the debate today.

We also had the opposition holding up signs saying, "Save neutrality." So anyone who was laboring under the misapprehension that this, this was going to be anything other than a major point of contention and a major clash between government and opposition as we head into the winter, I think would've been rapidly disabused of that.

You can't take it.

OK, Sean Russell getting a mention there who did, of course, travel to Nazi Germany to seek support from the German regime.

It went down like a lead balloon with Sinn Féin, I imagine.

Yeah, it was a bit of roaring and shouting, all right, following that.

I mean, I think Micheál Martin was on sketchy enough historical ground when he was talking about Sinn Féin supporting Nazism.

But Sean Russell, the chief of staff of the IRA, was presumably supported by Sinn Féin at the time, certainly did travel to Nazi Germany later.

uh and collaborated with that um with that regime um you know first casualty of war is his truth i suppose saying you know and so maybe this was a yeah a white lie in a small little battle uh in the doll it does show though i think um that the sort of uh the sort of raised tempers that we are likely to see throughout the debate on the triple, the abolition of the triple lock, which is what Mary Lou McDonald had raised in her question and which takes place in the Dáil tomorrow.

The first part of that takes place tomorrow.