IT is the most desperate fake reality show of them all — welcome to Seanadfornia.

AS the Sex Pistols put it as they stormed off stage early at their final gig: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”

SO, the Taoiseach believes voters will not want to be “bribed” into backing the Yes campaign in the EU fiscal compact referendum — sorry, Enda, but have you ever met the Irish people?

CIVIL partnerships were always a first step, not a full stop, but it is remarkable the way public opinion has now swung so rapidly behind the move to gay-marriage equality.

GOD-hating, priest-baiting, loony leftie Eamon Gilmore secured a key plank of his evil secular masterplan to make us a nation of pagans by shutting down the Vatican embassy.

AS one Labour TD bluntly put it: “How long does it take to write the sentence: ‘We fucked up’?”

Our Taoiseach’s comments about the people of Ireland’s ’mad borrowing’ didn’t quite give his billionaire buddies the full story, as he failed to mention the role that lenders and the bank guarantee played in getting us into this mess

PICTURE the scene in Cobh in the late 1840s as the huddled and wretchedly emaciated figures litter the quay side, idly flicking through Noonan’s Guide to the New World, musing: “Oooooh, shall I stay here and starve to death, or take a lovely little cruise on a famine ship and get some sun? Decisions, decisions ...”

AT least the Mayans put the end of the world off until December — sadly, the Government is not so generous and has decided the life chances of some of the most vulnerable children in the Irish school system should be extinguished a few months earlier.

FOR a new year’s resolution it was extreme.