Taoiseach leads his merry band to Wall Street

There’s a great scene in the Oscar-nominated short film Pentecost by Irish director Peter McDonald where the local parish priest gives the altar boys an impassioned pep talk before the biggest Mass of their lives.

One of the young lads is implored upon to treat the sanctus bell like a precious instrument, not “a bloody panic alarm”.

“You can’t just pick it up and jingle jangle like a flippin’ fire engine howling through town.”