Irish MEPs turn up the heat on Phil Hogan

Enda Kenny isn’t the only one having his commitment to "new politics" questioned these days. Look at poor Phil Hogan, who thought he had sailed away from all that stuff, into the lucrative waters of the EU Commission.

Big Phil is going before the European Parliament’s Agriculture committee next Thursday to explain why he should be given the ‘agri’ portfolio. Some of the MEPs are not best pleased with the big guy’s most recent efforts to bury any queries on how he conducted himself as a member of the Irish government.

He’s being pursued by Nessa Childers, who is refusing to pull on the green jersey and get behind our man in Brussels. She apparently doesn’t understand that what happens in the banana republic should stay in the banana republic. Instead, she is intent on telling tales about the morally bankrupt political culture we endure here.