Cool Enda born to be wild

IN his mind, ‘Easy Rider’ Enda roared into his manifesto launch on the back of a Harley Davidson.

It was all the new look Mr Cool of Irish politics could do to stop himself high-fiving the audience as he swept into the sumptuous, grand hall of the Royal College of Physicians.

There was nothing unexpected in the 80-page document, the only change was that Enda knew he was on a roll and after 10 bitter years of bloody slog, he had finally persuaded the electorate of his ability/seen the electorate backed into a corner by economic slump (delete as appropriate) and was now only 10 days away from being Taoiseach.