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We'll admit it, we've dropped the F-bomb on some bad occasions. Church, job interview, fish supper at gran's, the list goes on. But launching into a foulmouthed tirade in parliament is on a different level, even for us. Take a bow Irish MP Paul Gogarty, who gave Labour's Emmet Stagg what for, in a double-barrelled F-word blitz. The Irish parliament is to review its rules of conduct after Gogarty unleashed his verbal volley during a budget debate.
The Green Party lawmaker - a junior partner in the Irish government - used the F-word after being heckled by the Labour opposition for "bleating and blathering" in the debate on welfare cuts. He immediately apologised for the rant, which he admitted was "the most unparliamentary language" and asked for it to be withdrawn.
Amazingly, it has emerged that the F-word is not on the list of banned words, unlike such sizzlingly crude terms as brat (oooh!) buffoon (ouch!) rat (steady on!) and scumbag (fair enough).
He later pointed out that parliament's 83-page document, Salient Rulings of the Chair, does not include the F-word in its list of abusive language. Officials from the 18-member committee on procedure and privileges said they would review the matter today, but could not confirm whether the document - last edited in 2006 - would be changed.
Check out the substantially NSFW ear-bashing after the jump.
