Kung-fu career gets the chop

WHILE some politicians like to quote Marx or JFK, Ivor Callely is more of a ‘Kung Fu Panda’ kind of guy, telling a Seanad probe into his expenses: "Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery."

Unfortunately for the former Fianna Fáil junior minister, tomorrow is no longer such a mystery — he’s off to jail.

The ex-roads minister has long been a political car crash, but it is still a spectacular fall from grace in a career full of the most unusual twists and turns.