Will Enda board the emigrant ship buoyed by fat EU salary?

AND they said irony was dead? After casually waving goodbye to 10 economic emigrants an hour, Enda Kenny’s great reward may be a job overseas for himself.

But if the Taoiseach lands the plum €300,000-a-year post of president of the European Council, in December, he won’t be slumming it in the ‘Other Q’ at the Ryanair departure gate like the thousands of youngsters whose dole he slashed without providing anything near the required number of suitable training and education places needed to bump them back up to a slightly less meagre level of benefits.

That act of ‘drive-bye’ budget cruelty was a deliberate move to send even more of our bailout refugees abroad — 89,000 in the year to last April, according to the CSO — but now Mr Kenny is being spoken of as the successor to Herman Von Rompuy, as he has so pleased our former pay masters.