Cowen takes baby steps to recovery by blaming the children

BRIAN Cowen turned in a very good impression of Inspector Clueless yesterday, revealing to the Dáil the guilty party responsible for our dire financial woes.

Surprisingly, the Taoiseach concluded it wasn’t him, or the Galway tent mafia, or even the skanky bankers. No, the rest of us got it so wrong – the real economic vandals were the poor all along.

Seems it was not the plutocratic banker with the unsustainable loans in the House of Greed that killed the dear old Celtic Tiger – no, it was the poverty-line dweller with the benefits book in the post office that did the deed.