Play
Colombian questions
Colourful Fianna Fail Senator Mary White and equally colourful Fine Gaeler Jerry Buttimer are at loggerheads.
It started with White questioning the European Union's planned free trade agreement with Colombia, where she visited seven times on a "human rights mission", prompting smirking on the opposition side of the Dail chamber as memories of her mission to the Colombia Three were revived.
Buttimer said he would love to hear a definition of "human rights", adding that he clearly differed from the Fianna Fail Senator in this case.
White shot back at him: "That is an outrageous statement. A person is presumed innocent until found guilty.
"How dare the Senator? We live in a Republic, a free state, not a totalitarian state."
Irish Independent
Most Watched
Play
Play
Play
Play
Play
Latest Lifestyle
- Ireland’s new quarantine laws – Who will they apply to and how will they work?
- The best easy mulled wine recipe: Monica's mulled wine
- Almost eight in 10 parents say their child will get new nasal spray flu vaccine this year
- How to make the most out of your 5km in Level 5, and teaching children the art of ‘slow looking’
- From Bobbing for Apples to Ghost in the Graveyard: the best traditional Halloween games
Most Read
- The Kerry Babies Case: The shocking scandal and tragedy that divided the nation and the mystery that was never solved
- It's hell since I've fallen in love with a slut
- Laughter lines that come with a dark side
- 'My doctor found a lump in my breast and I'm frightened'
- I caught my husband wearing my lingerie
Latest
- Arsenal miss out on Europa League final against Man United after scoreless draw with Villarreal
- Shipping company has become ‘hopelessly insolvent’ due to an alleged fraud
- Man United lose Roma battle but win war to book Europa League final place
- Nicola Sturgeon calls ex-deputy leader of Britain First ‘racist’ in tense confrontation
- ‘People need to realise this is a serious situation and they’re not for turning’