Our leaders’ questions of sport

I WOULD HAVE guessed that green fees at Druid Glen were expensive. But €35 billion? Those fairways must be like snooker-table felt.

But... Brian Cowen says he didn’t actually talk about Anglo Irish Bank, the economy or anything else other than whether to pitch or putt when he and Sean FitzPatrick struck off into the picturesque Wicklow countryside on a dewy July morning in 2008.

Can you imagine that two-ball though? The revelation of the cosy relationship between our Taoiseach and the former chief of the most toxic of banks came to light this week in the newly published book The Fitzpatrick Tapes, by Sunday Times journalists Brian Carey and Tom Lyons.