KENNY: Man of Steel.

NOT so much the Night of the Long Knives, more like the Night of the Living Dead.

BRIAN COWEN cut a lonely figure in the Dáil yesterday as neither cabinet colleagues nor coalition partners would sit with him.

A QUARTER of humanity held its collective breath and hoped the Taoiseach would change his mind.

WITH her Cabinet old man Bertie Ahern barely out of the country, Mary Harney last night unleashed another bout of shameless political flirting towards an opposition leader.

YOU know the way we become immune to things — even tragedies fail to move us when they are piled up over time. We become hardened and desensitised.