PDs play happy family at shotgun wedding

IT was more like a wedding than a coronation as Michael McDowell swept down the make-shift aisle of the Westin Hotel’s sumptuous Banking Hall to finally marry his destiny and ambition, and thus save the Progressive Democrats from the shame of being jilted by voters at the next election.

Sure, it was a shotgun ceremony — as the Justice Minister had effectively pointed both barrels at his rivals for PD affection, Liz O’Donnell and Tom Parlon, warning them, “give your consent or the party gets it” — but the groom looked radiant none the less.

As befits a grand society wedding the father of the bride, Des O’Malley, was on hand to give his beloved offspring away.