After Trevorgate, Greens will sooner or later end a bad marriage

ALL eyes turned to the head of an unravelling, divided Government as he was forced to deny he had deliberately “unleashed the forces of hell” against his key partner in power.

Of course, that was just Westminster where British premier Gordon Brown was weakly insisting he had not shafted his Chancellor of the Exchequer – such dark political arts would never happen in the dear old Dáil. Oh no, the very idea.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen was more ratty than rattled in the chamber as he railed against opposition assertions his Government was exhausted and imploding.