Tricky Mick just latest Irish politician to show no shame

SHAMELESS — sometimes that is the only word to sum up the Dáil.

And just like the TV show of the same name, there amidst the scavengers stands the shabby looking character who symbolises the moral decay engulfing all — the Chatsworth estate has Frank Gallagher, Leinster House has Mick Wallace.

Both are prone to tear-sodden emotional outbursts, interspersed with grand sounding pronouncements on how the little guy is being crushed by the state — the same state they assume owes them a living and which they feed off.