True Blues for party pledges

WITH promises to keep taxes low, enforce stricter law and order, prevent single mothers from unfairly claiming welfare and to lift a ban on stag hunting, you would be forgiven for thinking they came across an old Tory document rather than a fresh plan for a new Ireland if they opened Fine Gael’s manifesto yesterday.

An all-male lineup of the party’s Bruiser Boys were selected to launch the document in the surroundings of the Royal College of Physicians on Dublin’s Kildare Street.

The gender profile at the top table was purely coincidental, party leader Enda Kenny explained.