Cabinet comedy circus is back in town

PENSIONERS in revolt over rough treatment, education cuts protesters besieging Leinster House and ministers dismissing talk of an IMF bailout as “ludicrous” — sadly, the first day of the Dáil felt just like any of its last 500 days.

Same old circus, brand new clowns.

But that’s unfair, isn’t it? Unfair to trainee clowns I mean — because this lot have been in power for nearly a year now and should really have graduated from all that knock-about stuff.