Endamania runs mild in China’s second city
China’s dazzling second city’s inexorable rise to become the new New York and the real capital of capital means it can probably afford to take Enda Kenny’s clumsy comparison of it to Ballymun in its stride, but the Taoiseach still had to tread carefully when he met the mayor of the 23m-strong megapolis.
The two men decided to avoid talk of Enda likening the cityscape to the notorious slum flats of north Dublin whose heroin needle chill U2 immortalised in their lyrics, and instead concentrated on Shanghai’s lovely “sister city” on the banks of the Lee.
