Cowen huffed and he puffed and... he blew it

NOT so much the Night of the Long Knives, more like the Night of the Living Dead.

Step forward our thrusting, fresh-faced new ministers Pat Carey and Tony Killeen with a combined age of 119 years between the two of them.

Margaret Thatcher used to refer with glee to the opportunities offered by Cabinet reshuffles as “slicing the turkey”, but Brian Cowen was merely content to recycle his turkeys.