Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is a jet! It is the €8k-an-hour people’s jet!

DIANA may have been the “people’s princess,” but the Government’s Air Corps Lear is the “people’s jet” and it has been just as soundly used and abused by the establishment as poor old Lady Di ever was, according to an enraged Enda Kenny.

The Fine Gael leader was railing at the way ministers had betrayed the Queen of Irish Skies for their own enjoyment and amusement.

When the Taoiseach could not even show enough respect to the “people’s jet” to call her by her rightful name, Mr Kenny’s outrage sent him shooting into the lower atmosphere of hysteria himself.