April fool proves voters wouldn't put anything past this Government

TO the casual observer it might have appeared that the women of Cork — and quite a few men — had suddenly and en masse become madly interested in the antics of a seemingly demented leader of the Labour Party.

They could have been forgiven because in bars and coffee shops on Wednesday even the smoking ban was forgotten and the conversations were about the Rampant Rabbit. But this was not a reference to political cavortings in the Dáil.

Quite simply, the Ann Summers store had arrived, and while cavorting was in mind, it most certainly did not include a political animal.