HAS it come to this Enda — channelling your inner Bob Geldof to win back public favour?

Despite the activists being compared to ISIS, there was no violence, the only strong language was spoekn in the Dail, and the Right2Water coalition is crumbling faster than our ageing pipe system.

HEATED talk about belated action inside the Dáil sparked by concern for a cold corpse found outside it.

LEO Varadkar is thinking about a same-sex marriage with Fianna Fáil — trouble is, they are just not that into him.

WHAT did they die for? That is the lament for the sacrifice of the 1916 rebels, since corporate greed and government incompetence pushed the State they brought into bloody being to the brink of financial meltdown.

ATOP a sewage plant with the wind swirling around him, Environment Minister Alan Kelly was speaking, but it was difficult to make out exactly what he was trying to say as the enveloping stench threatened to become overwhelming.

As one Cabinet Minister put it: "Jaysus Eric, I think our cover’s been blown."

DRUGS have a funny effect on politicians.

THE women victims of Republican violence seem to haunt Gerry Adams the most. Unlike murdered mother-of- 10, Jean McConville, rape survivor Maíria Cahill cannot be tossed into a shallow grave and forgotten about.

Changing a few board members at Irish Water will not allow the Cabinet to wash it hands of the mess that it has created. It must tackle the bonus issue and fast, writes Shaun Connolly