VIDEO: Poetic justice as protests rain on Kenny’s parade

"Xanadu" has often been a word associated with strongholds, from the original centre of Kubla Khan’s empire to a media mogul’s imposing mansion in Orson Wells’ 1941 classic Citizen Kane.

And in ‘Xanadu’, the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote of Kubla Khan’s “stately pleasure-dome”. In the Rebel County, however, Xanadu took on the guise of an anonymous office block as a beleaguered leader sought shelter from a storm brewing, both a literal and a political one.

Around 200 protesters braved the pouring rain yesterday to demonstrate their continued opposition to water charges as Taoiseach Enda Kenny visited Blackpool, Cork, to announce 120 IT jobs at Xanadu, a services provider to the online sports trading market.