OFF THE BOYLE

YESTERDAY morning Brian Lenihan accused Green Party Senator Dan Boyle of defaming him by inferring a 2009 phone call betrayed something less than zeal in Mr Lenihan’s pursuit of rogue bankers.

So when interviewing John Gormley later on Six One, Brian Dobson could probably have picked a better day to refer to the Corkman as “Dan Brown“, that imaginative interpreter of historical events.

We await an updated edition of Angels & Demons — the inside story of the outgoing coalition.