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Thu 05 May 2007McDowell, Gormley in heated clash over PD claimsThe election campaign hotted up yesterday with an on-street verbal brawl between the PD leader, Michael McDowell, and the Green Party chairman, John Gormley, while the Fine Gael and Labour leaders attacked the Government over waste and the Taoiseach defended his record and cited the endorsement of foreign political leaders, write Stephen Collinsand Deaglán de Bréadún.Last night, an RTÉ television debate involving the leaders of Labour, the PDs, Greens and Sinn Féin saw robust exchages on a range of policies including the economy, health, crime and immigration.