Fine Gael Senator John McGahon is his party's main hope of retaining its seat in Louth but his candidacy has caused a problem for the party which has galvanised everybody else into attack mode, writes Sandra Hurley

The Fine Gael leader conceded that the altercation involving Mr McGahon was not a “scuffle”, as he previously described it.

Alastair Kelly, from the Isle of Wight, was on his lunch break when he noticed the pensioner who had taken a fall and hurt herself.