End of the line for an isolated Taoiseach

“THE next Taoiseach to arrive at platform 2 is heading for Big Trouble, calling at Election Disaster and Heave Junction on the way...”

As Brian Cowen disembarked from the Luas at Dundrum Station the glorious spring sunshine belied the polite but icy reception he received from uninterested voters.

“Sorry for your troubles,” one woman announced to the Taoiseach, presumably expressing national mourning for the death of our economy which so recently passed away under the watchful eye of Mr Cowen.