Taoiseach Enda Kenny is one of 9,000 cyclists participating in the Ring of Kerry cycle today.

“The Taoiseach now standing at Platform 1 is the 08.30 Austerity Express, calling at all stations to the second bailout...”

The birthday boys did not look like they were having much fun.

There’s another Kennedy running for Congress, and a day after he had officially launched his campaign, Joseph P Kennedy III got some advice from a man who knows a thing or two about winning elections.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s visit to Ireland next month will last longer than five hours, a Government spokesman has said.

FIANNA Fáil’s decision to cancel its Christmas dinner was welcomed by a former chair of the annual bash and party TD who said the event could have been seen as politicians having a “posh nosh” meal during the present economic emergency.

IF BRIAN COWEN was a sports coach and the junior ministerial line-up his team, yesterday’s changes would probably rank as fairly substantial. Three players were kicked off the panel and five faces brought in.

IT WAS a dodgy day for the Taoiseach to be seen receiving €1,000 in a bookies.

Fine Gael leader Kenny has insisted that he was not taken by surprise by the Taoiseach election announcement today, saying he had been on standby.

They renamed the Taoiseach on St Patrick’s Day in the United States.