Unemployed protest as elite dines on roast

FOR the first time in his life Bertie needed a decoy last night to break through a crowd: angry IFI workers protesting outside a Fianna Fáil fundraising dinner.

This was not the welcoming committee the Taoiseach had expected at his 100-a-head President’s dinner in the Cork hotel.

No, it was supposed to be a celebration; a chance to thank the Leesiders for putting the six Fianna Fáil city TDs back in the Dáil.