Anyone hear the porky about the funny money that screwed us all?

“FUNNY money”, “screwed” and “porkies” — oh, how the campaign’s buzz words have encapsulated the great battle of competing ideas that is the enlightenment of political discourse.

Or maybe not.

You’ve just got to laugh at Brian Lenihan — after all, the financial markets always did. It takes some nerve to complain with a straight face about Fine Gael’s “funny money” economic policies when you’re the man who did so much to make Ireland a standing joke around the world. But then everyone is saying anything they can to stop the elected dictatorship of Enda Kenny beginning in seven days’ time.