The fresh new Cabinet ... Hang on, this is the same old, stale old crowd

BERTIE AHERN’s Cabinet reshuffle was not so much like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, but more like declaring the iceberg to be a national monument.

Actually, it was grossly unfair of the opposition to describe the Taoiseach’s housekeeping as just furniture rearrangement on the deck of the ill-fated ship. It was substantially more than that.

Bertie managed to refloat the ship with practically the same crew in the hope of taking on the iceberg again. Unfortunately, the iceberg is called Ireland.