Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said he is “surprised” that Taoiseach Simon Harris is continuing to back Senator John McGahon, as photos and videos showing injuries a man suffered following an altercation with the Louth candidate have circulated.

It comes following the publication of photographs in the Sunday Times of injuries allegedly suffered by a farmer during a late-night incident with Mr McGahon outside a Louth pub

RIVAL PARTY LEADERS are piling pressure on Fine Gael leader Simon Harris to address the behaviour of a Fine Gael senator that led to an assault case taken against him in the High Court.Fine Gael’s Louth general election candidate John McGahon was involved in an altercation with farmer Breen White outside the Rum House pub in Dundalk in 2018.