Mattie McGrath

Politics fans have been cracking up after Independent TD Mattie McGrath went on a tangent about washing machine tablets in the Dáil, while criticising An ...

“I’m not saying I’m a bad homemaker and don’t do the washing but I’m not up to speed on the capsules that go in, the type of them that go into the washing machine. "It’s not transparent and we’ll see when all the dirty linen is washed, we’ll see when the clothes are hanging out on the line on a good summer’s day like today they’d be fairly well stained and needing the washing machine and Daz or whatever they call it, or whatever word they use now I don’t know, they’re gone away from Daz. In a speech in the chamber, the independent Tipperary TD told the Dáil that the Planning Board is not fit for purpose, before launching into an aside about “dirty linen”, saying he isn’t sure what capsules people use these days, but it was “Surf or Daz” when he was younger.