Cheeky birds dominate last day of business

Cheeky birds dominated the last day of the Oireachtas — no, not just Enda Kenny’s view of the uppity women audacious enough to think at least one of them was worthy of a junior ministerial job — but, seagulls too.

Concern about the winged creatures took off in the upper house just as the Seanad and Dáil wound-down for their well deserved two-month long summer holiday.

“I have nothing against pigeons — I can take or leave pigeons — but I am very much against seagulls,” Senator Ned O’Sullivan was keen to point out lest anyone suspect he was orniphobic — a bird hater in general, rather than just anti-seagull in particular.