AL DOYLE’S SERIES OF TWEETS

paid for them.

Junior Health Minister McEntee did not reply to that question either. Ms McEntee had posted photos of Mr Varadkar’s group on social media around 9pm on Friday night with the caption: ‘Let’s be havin ya.’

But after the incident emerged late on Friday night, she entered into a row with critics on Twitter yesterday. Ms McEntee criticised Mr Doyle in a tweet at 10.16am.

To Mr Doyle’s first post on Twitter, Ms McEntee replied: ‘Wow! You do realise he’s the one actually raising the repeal issue when other wouldn’t! #GreatGigByTheWay #Pity About The Bitterness .’

Later, in a reply to another person, she tweeted: ‘He’s set a date for a referendum. A referendum has to happen if we are to change things.’

Ms McEntee told the Mail yesterday; ‘I was at a gig with mates, a group I’ve seen many times. No one was treating it as a PR thing.’

Limerick Fine Gael TD Tom Neville was also backstage. He told the MoS: ‘We were in a social setting and there were a number of different subjects discussed, like any social setting and obviously the Eighth was one of them,’ he said.

‘I was with a group, I don’t even know who organised the invite, and I just went backstage with them just to say hello.

‘Leo would be a bigger fan than myself of LCD Soundsystem. I think he’s seen them on a number of occasions. Leo would know all the songs and everything. And Paschal would be into them too.’