Cool Brian bigs up his Appetite for street cred

IT’S a long way from Mrs Flannery’s Folk Club in Tullamore to the Highway to Hell for Taoiseach Brian Cowen, who had teenagers around the country cringing yesterday when he tried to get down with the youth, talking music and his preference for Guns ‘N’ Roses over AC/DC.

Hot on the heels of his promise to improve communication and connect with the people, the man, who once smoked a spliff as a student, climbed on to the 2FM roadcaster in Drogheda and tried to recover his inner street cred.

But any attempts to speak the lingo of the youth of Ireland were about as successful as Jedward addressing a conference of economists on the subject of subordinated debt.