It’s high time the upper house came tumbling down

DO you feel stimulated? It has been an electric week in politics.

Bang! Enda Kenny is to abolish that thing you don’t care about: the Seanad. Pow! Brendan Howlin has unveiled his package of “stimulus” which, even he admitted, in a slightly embarrassed voice, was “modest”.

Whack! The Government gets frisky, fresh blood with the addition of new junior minister, Tom ‘Who?’ Hayes, who excelled himself by falling flat on his face twice on his first day.