Tom Cruise surprised a group of acting students by giving a speech at their graduation.

I WAS in Dublin Castle last Saturday, watching the Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore fawning over former US president Bill Clinton like giddy interns basking in his momentary attention, yet they missed the key point of his brilliantly-delivered speech — that unless you decouple families from unsustainable, and unpayable, mortgage debt, you condemn this economy to a decades-long recession.

IT was expected to be the angry taxi driver against the slick telesales guy.

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