We hear the train-wreck a comin’

A singing Taoiseach, samba drums, and a slightly antisocial socialist confronted bleary-eyed commuters at St Stephen’s Green Luas stop.

Eamon Gilmore was first on the scene, but, luckily for him, the tannoy system did not announce the reality of the situation: “The campaign train-wreck now arriving on platform two is the 20.14 Labour Party which terminates here.”

Slumping in the polls, the Tánaiste appeared to hurry past commuters heading straight for the media huddle where he delivered a few sound bites and then skedaddled, leaving the Labour samba band looking a bit pointless as they played on without him.