Dáil theatrics back after six-week break

PANTOMIME season may be long over but Snow White and the Political Dwarfs is still running at the Dáil theatre.

The first performance of leader’s questions this year saw Bertie Ahern playing Grumpy, Enda Kenny far from Happy, and when Conor Lenihan shambled in six minutes late we all knew who was still Sleepy.

Snow White appeared as the colour of the cloth devotees of St Brigid leave out at this time of year to ward off illness, according to Mr Kenny, who reminded TDs of the long-forgotten practice in order to deliver another of his agonisingly lame soundbites which eventually wound round to a tenuous link with the Government needing to wave the white flag on health care.