All bluster and no bullet as Eamon conjures both Springer and Shaw

IT’S December 1994, the Fianna Fáil regime is minutes from collapse and Albert Reynolds is chasing Bertie Ahern around Government Buildings with a gun.

As the Labour turncoat hordes and their Blueshirt buddies are storming the palace gates, An Taoiseach “puts the gun” to the

Finance Minister’s head at quarter to midnight to make him sign off on a tax break for a shopping mall — it was the right and proper thing to do, Mr Ahern having been “bribed” for the favour after all.