Kenny the mugger makes pensioners cough up cash

SO, it’s come to this then has it Enda Kenny – mugging poor defenceless pensioners to look big in front of your peers?

Enda didn’t need to don a hoodie to do the deed, the Fine Gael Don just herded his victims into a room and demanded they handed over their pension books one by one as he, no doubt, grinned maniacally to himself that this would show uppity Eamon Gilmore who was running the opposition turf from now on.

But yet again, taming Eamon was proving too elusive for Kid-gloves Kenny as the Labour leader had already shaken down his own ministerial pension- holders and persuaded them to fall on their entitlements for the good of the nation – and the party’s PR offensive. Better late than never, eh, Eamon?