No cheesy picture as Enda’s crisp speech welcomes 70 jobs

It should have been the day Mr Tayto met Mr Taoiseach but, strangely, the big yellow fellow was nowhere to be seen as Enda Kenny arrived to marvel at the adventure park built to honour the crisp icon.

“Mr Tayto’s busy, so he is,” an insider revealed on the promise of anonymity, before adding, mysteriously: “He’s been busy since that incident with Brian Cowen. Mr Tayto doesn’t meet politicians anymore.”

Though not recounted in his best selling autobiography, it seems that “incident” was not really Mr Tayto’s fault at all, but rather unscrupulous media outfits had printed pictures of him meeting the then Taoiseach and made unkind comparisons about how much the pair resembled each other.