POOR Enda Kenny. Folksy and ruddy-cheeked, the new boy from Dublin was roughed up badly by European leaders during his first outing to Brussels. The Irish prime minister caught the eye of the class bully, Nicolas Sarkozy. Nobody defended the taoiseach; even the head prefect, Angela Merkel, put the boot in.
Yes yes.
But why have him being chased by his wife Fionnula and Brian Hayes TD?
It’s called power listening.
And it’s not as easy as it looks.
For the day before the day that’s in it. Patriotic little tyke John Beary, age 4, from Wexford in Dublin yesterday. His pensive stare reflects the national mood.
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Oireachtas Films (oh yes) has put together a montage of footage from the first day of the 31st Dail.
Sweet.
But what 1980s MT USA Fender-screeching lunacy is playing the background?
Nat reckons its REO Speedwagon. Not Pancho has chosen Foreigner. Susie thinks it might be a solo in the middle of Pat Benatar’s ‘Love Is A Battlefield’.
Chompsky, meanwhile, reckons its Toto.
But that’s what he always says.
RTE captured this interesting vignette today as Dame Edna strolled into his second day on the job.
Yes, he probably got a lift to the bottom of Merrion Street, but it’s a start.
Better still is the chit-chat he shares with the photographers. It’s a little weird. It’s a little provincial. But after 14 years of shitheads waving as their limos swept into Leinster House, there’s a little bit of charm about it too.
Also someone has told him to lose the whole ‘thumbs aloft’ thing. Which is a mistake, we feel.
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