SMOKES& DAGGERS

Inside the corridors of power...

IN what looks like the latest frantic Sinn Féin attempt to scramble aboard the water bandwagon, Gerry Adams tweeted a response to Noel Coonan’s ludicrous equation of water protesters to Isis. ‘I am not & I have never been a member of ISIS,’ said Grisly’s unfunny tweet. The question is, is Gerry now or has he ever been a member of Right2Water? The voters of Dublin West didn’t think so… THE hot spot du jour for the spotty geeks of Ireland’s Sandymount ‘Silicon Alley’ is The Old Spot in Bath Avenue and, these days, the place bristles (if that’s the word) with half-stubble, half-latté-froth Movember Moes. But the other night, the Googlebook nerds were put to shame when the Big Mo himself, financier and Glasgow Celtic owner Dermot Desmond, pictured, put in an appearance. A moustache is for life, not just for November. IN the wake of the water protest in Jobstown, Tallaght, in which it was alleged that a brick had been thrown at a Garda car, a Facebook page has been set up entitled ‘I Bet This Brick Can Get More Likes Than The Labour Party’. As of last night, the brick was closing in fast on Labour’s 10,497 ‘likes’, with 8,038 ‘likes’ of its own. Before Fianna Fáil starts sniggering, its Facebook page has amassed a paltry 6,693 ‘likes’. WITH all the talk of a Grand Coalition, it looks as if the Blueshirts and the Double-Effers have established a back channel. Smokes caught Fianna Fáil Public Accounts Committee chairman John McGuinness and Fine Gael press guru Fergal Purcell whispering furtively in a Dáil corridor. The two turned beetroot and clammed up. Sources close to Purcell claimed the two Kilkennymen were discussing hurling. So why the secrecy? Unless they were talking senior hurling… JOHN O’Donoghue, former globetrotting ceann comhairle and Minister for Kerry, passed his law exams this summer and must now ‘devil’ for a year – act as an unpaid apprentice to a barrister. We spotted him in the Four Courts this week, in his gown and ‘tabs’. Given The Bull’s talent for running up an expense account, less affluent litigants should approach with

caution.