Gruffalo Gil gets more than he bargained for

NINE-year-old Timmy fixed Eamon Gilmore with a hard stare and demanded: “How do we know you are not lying, because all the parties like Fianna Fáil said the same things?”

Micheál Martin may have been swinging verbal punches in all directions like an angry octopus in the TV debate, but primary school children in the commuter town 30km west of Dublin were much more linear — and lethal — in their questioning.

The Labour leader was taken aback by the directness of Timmy’s inquiry, but clearly pleased it was Fianna Fáil that sets the benchmark for political betrayal in such young minds.