Ceremonial leader more like Leader of the Pack as Burton boards the 39A

OH, this age of austerity business is proving very difficult for the great and the good to get used to.

The sheer vulgarity of tipping-up in a coach for the annual Arbour Hill service of remembrance for the dead of 1916 seemed to leave some cabinet ministers a tad bewildered.

A somewhat flustered looking Justice Minister Alan Shatter announced after the ceremony: “I’m late for the boat — I mean the bus!”