Buddies blather over cozy with Sarkozy

It was Buddy Hell in the Dáil.

Gerry Adams dismissed the “buddy-buddy” antics as the mark of an “amadán” — though the Sinn Féiner’s own faltering schoolboy Irish made you wonder who was the real fool.

Joe Higgins went further and suggested the Taoiseach had been passed around the Brussels conference room like a tray of biscuits as all of the EU leaders got the chance to patronise him in turn for being the poster boy of pointless austerity.