Today’s top feature: Dáil sugar daddies

SO THIS Government dies as it has lived — to the sound of ravenous dogs feeding off what’s left of Ireland’s economic carcass.

Senior bondholders, ministerial pension seekers, top bankers, just some of the members of those golden circles that have been allowed to run rings around this country’s taxpayers for so long.

And there thrown into the centre of the mix are independent TDs Michael Lowry and Jackie Healy-Rae — the Mouths from the South — always looking for an extra bit of Government fat to chew on and display for the delight of their constituents.