SMOKES & DAGGERS
THE Taoiseach was a busy man yesterday, announcing 187 jobs in Wicklow before opening a 20km walkway at Vartry Reservoir in Roundwood. While making the jobs announcement at Powerscourt House, he met a bride and groom who were getting their pictures taken. He posed with them and promptly shared the photo on Twitter, right. What’s great about the pic – apart from the fact Leo keeps his sunglasses on – is his message. ‘Accidental wedding crasher. Congrats to the happy couple,’ he told his 164,000 online followers. Just one thing: did you not catch their names, Taoiseach? STILL with Leo, he got flak online for his tribute to the 170-year-old SMOKES pities the RTÉ mandarin dealing with the fallout from the Claire Byrne Show abortion debate, which angered many Yes campaigners. Our RTÉ sources tell us the letters of complaint are ‘past the 1,300 mark and still rising’. The poor public servant must be glad the referendum was carried, or he would never have been seen again under the weight of all the letters. The unfortunate has been given a nickname: Arthur Murphy. He of RTÉ Mailbag fame. THERE was furious speculation during the week that David Davis was about to quit as Brexit secretary over his dispute with Theresa May about the backstop deal on the Irish border. It inspired a tweet from one Duncan Weldon, a markets expert: ‘Hearing that DD was going to resign but assumed he could keep his minsterial car and salary under a bespoke deal which turned out not to be available.’ THE latest encroachment of the secularists on Catholic primary schools – a ban on requiring baptismal certs for registration – left one conservative TD in quite the state of agitation. He grumbled: ‘What next, the Angelus, The Sunday Game, the 99 ice-cream cone? Where does it stop?’ We chose not to remind him that this will be the last Championship for Michael Lyster, left. Too painful…