Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle does not take up my time, I will be finished but I must have my say.

The sort of bullying that goes on in national newspapers is disgraceful. I want to make it clear that not all journalists are involved in these bully-boy tactics. There are respectable journalists operating in this House but unfortunately some of these people have taken it upon themselves to attack Sinn Féin Members, talking personally about their families, about me and about other Members on this side of the House. They think they can write whatever they like, that they have poetic licence to say whatever poison they like about individuals. The people they write about have families, we have children and we do not deserve to be bullied like that by this type of people.

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