White House furnace shock for shamrock

PRESIDENT Barack O’bama received the traditional bowl of shamrock yesterday to mark St Patrick’s Day, but if you thought the leader of the free world might add it to his garden patch, forget it.

Despite First Lady Michelle Obama starting work on a White House vegetable garden a year ago, our shamrock won’t be making the cut.

Instead, once passed to the President, it is swiftly taken away and plunged into a furnace, presumably by a cabal of CIA security staff legging it through the White House in the style of 24’s Jack Bauer.