Viewers vote for Mr Big as Bertie proves a turn-off

NOT even Fianna Fáil’s Mr Big could pull this one off.

Although Bertie famously swapped his anorak for Louis Copeland's pin-striped sophistication, wears enough make-up to win a Max Factor contract, and even pounds the pavement in the male equivalent of Manolo Blahniks, the latest TV ratings show he's still too downtown Drumcondra to woo the ladies who lunch.

In the latest embarrassing episode for the party faithful, it has emerged almost three times more people watched the final episode of Sex and the City than the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis.