Panti Bliss tops list of influential Europeans

Drag Queen, Panti Bliss, has been named as the most eye-catching Irish person on a list of who is shaping Europe.

It is the first time the new and very successful Brussels-based media, Politico, has devised such a list for the EU. Its sister publication in the US has a similar annual gallery.

Panti Bliss, who is otherwise Mayo-man Rory O’Neill, tweeted his response: “There I am, “shaking” Europe. (Though my corset is doing the “shaping”)”.