The selfie-stick and the phenomena centred on the ‘ego’

Selfies are so last year. The trend now is to snap yourself with a device that looks like a mini golf club, says Jonathan deBurca Butler. 

IT was reported last week that Taoiseach Enda Kenny had taken part in a group photo at the Young Fine Gael conference in Limerick.

Had the photo been a bog-standard portrait, it would not have made several front pages and garnered so much social-media attention.