And the winners are ... the politicians. We’re the losers

WE have been assured the Anglo prom-note deal is an unsinkable “ship” that has left “port” — let’s hope it is not the Titanic leaving Cobh, heading for an iceberg.

This column received a frosty look when it put just that analogy to the Taoiseach. But perhaps Edna Kenny’s angry glare was because he had a momentary movie flash-forward to an image of himself as the abandoned blonde in the freezing waters, drifting away on a piece of old wardrobe, amid the wreckage, as Michael Noonan ducks beneath the waves to the tune of a reworking of the Celine Dion dirge: ‘My Debt Will Go On’.

With Oscar weekend upon us once more, the self-loving, back-slapping by ministers over the Anglo-prom note move has almost rivalled Hollywood in its political onanism.