Not-so-fab-four have little scene to steal

THEY hit the stage like a boy band which had seen better days.

There they stood, rigid and lifeless like the Four Doormen of the Economic Apocalypse — Taoiseach and Tánaiste, flanked by their back-up singers Alan Shatter and Leo Varadkar.

The New Kids On The Bail-Out Block, or given their determination to drive down wages in low paid sectors, not so much Take That, more Take Less.