Keane Report shows Enda and Eamon are dastardly duo

I WAS in Dublin Castle last Saturday, watching the Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore fawning over former US president Bill Clinton like giddy interns basking in his momentary attention, yet they missed the key point of his brilliantly-delivered speech — that unless you decouple families from unsustainable, and unpayable, mortgage debt, you condemn this economy to a decades-long recession.

Keane Report shows Enda and Eamon are dastardly duo

Their willful delusion reminded me of a Channel 4 documentary on the self-styled ‘superheroes of suburbia’ who claim to battle crime and injustice, but in reality live in a world of impotent disguise.

Inspired by civilian crime-fighter movie, Kick Ass, would-be public protectors have been slipping into spandex and patrolling streets all over Britain.

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