Sleeping dogs have been let lie for too long

AND so Biffo awakes — although more Sleeping Brutey than Beauty.

Indeed, Brian Cowen was lashing around in the Dáil yesterday like a nightclub bouncer launching strikes in all directions.

After being derided for so long as the Trappist Taoiseach and Comatose Cowen, he came out fighting — and the gaping economic divisions between would-be government partners Fine Gael and Labour provided him with an unmissible target.