Dancing for a nation at the crossroads

WHEN Eamon de Valera aspired to a nation dancing at the crossroads, it’s not quite clear if he meant it to take place at the junction of Stephen’s Green and Kildare Street.

Nor is it evident if he intended for his grandson to be ceilíing on the smallest dance floor in the world in the Shelbourne Hotel, located at the aforementioned interchange.

True to his ancestor’s legacy, Éamon O’Cuiv was stepping it out at the ‘Ceilí for Nice’ with ample comely maidens, as well as Chief Whip Mary Hanafin and FF backbencher Máire Hoctor.