Queue forms in rush for life-boats

Caroline O’Doherty has a sinking feeling at the Department of Finance

AS was fitting on a day when evening classes in the ancient art of ark-building would have been over-subscribed, Charlie McCreevy chose the Department of Finance’s aquarium as the venue to launch his Book of Estimates.

It’s not really an aquarium of course, but with its green-blue carpets, blue-grey walls, greenygrey curtains and backdrops framed in turquoise and azure, the splendid second room to the right on the ground floor of the house of money churned up thoughts of all things oceanic.