Sorry, but Pat doesn’t do apologies

MICHAEL McDowell will be sniggering into his memoirs.

He, the then excessively confident leader of a pre-election PD party, of whom Pat Rabbitte had declared: “Michael is like a menopausal Paris Hilton. He’s an inveterate attention seeker.”

Yet it was Pat who, on a day when the only news in town was the 36-hour dry spell, created a Hiltonesque drama guaranteed to put his name in every paper, picture and news bulletin.