Let’s be straight about ministerial Patrick’s Day junkets

The so-called trade missions are free holidays, but while our representatives are being feted abroad at our expense in cities of their choosing, they could make a stand, such as for the right of gay people to join New York’s parade

St Patrick's Day is ‘not about sexuality’, Enda Kenny has helpfully informed us. Damn straight it’s not, Taoiseach.

So, if St Patrick’s Day is not about sexuality, what is it about, Mr Kenny? Ah, yes — a Cabinet scramble to the four corners of the Earth for a free jolly.