Cowen canvass flails as Leesiders prove a hard find

ALAS Monsieur Biffo we don’t recognise vous.

These were no doubt the thoughts of a group of bemused French tourists when Taoiseach Brian Cowen started pressing the flesh for a Lisbon Treaty yes vote in Cork yesterday.

During his European love-in the Taoiseach found it quite hard to find Corkonians on the streets of Cork. No shortage of Europeans though.