Figures not my forte, pleads trustee

IT WASN’T the most auspicious fresh start for a future taoiseach.

The house bought to be his new base was sinking into the Liffey and its trustees were obsessed with thoughts of their boss’s demise courtesy of a fast-moving vehicle.

His local organisation’s valiant efforts at fundraising via golf classics were written out of party history and to top it all, one of his main money men had no head for figures.