TDs want Pygmalion-like transformation

COMING soon to a constituency clinic near you: “My Fair TD.”

In a new adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's classic tale Pygmalion, ambitious phonetics and etiquette lecturer Professor Mary Hanafin takes on the implausible task of turning local TD 'Lies Doolittle' into an articulate and cultured gentleman.

Fianna Fáil's backbenchers are casting off their image as an uncouth and rambunctious gaggle. Now the cosmopolitan crew are broadening their horizons through languages classes in Irish and French.