PD chief’s sliding scale

NEW PD leader Michael McDowell has demanded that Enda Kenny and Pat Rabbitte identify their major achievements.

This is a clear echo of his recent hysterical putdown of Richard Bruton, the implication being that neither man can come near to matching his own peerless record of achievement, at least by his own modest reckoning.

If Mr McDowell would reveal to us how, on his unique knee-high scale, he rates each of his party and cabinet colleagues, then perhaps we would be better placed to judge his assessment of his political opponents.