Car crash politics had the Ex-Factor

IT was like a car crash of game show formats at Leinster House yesterday.

Car crash politics had the Ex-Factor

Brian Cowen cut a very unsteady figure Dancing On Thin Ice while presenting a combination of X Factor (Ex-Minister — Sackedya!) and Fianna Fáil’s Got Talent? — the question mark hanging heavy in the air as the seven dwarfs were booted off the junior benches while two people you had never heard of got promoted to jobs you never knew existed.

But, of course, the only show any deputy was interested in was the one they created themselves: The TD’s Price Is Right!

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