More fine objective reporting from a national newspaper

can be found here.

Question: how often do you see an establishment politician's office, whether in Brussels, Strasbourg or Dublin, referred to as "plush" in a national broadsheet? Rarely, if ever. Well, I was in a government minister's office once - a left-wing Labour minister, as it happens - and I can tell you, to call it "plush" would have been understating it somewhat.

And poor Enda, with his "obviously maybe he lacks the courage". I think Enda should obviously obviously stop embarrassing himself and the upstanding but confused people who vote for his party and pack himself off to Mayo, or maybe the continent, seeing as he likes it so much.

Seriously, though, the announcement by Libertas can only be good news. At present only two of the 13 MEP's from the 26 counties could be described as broadly "eurosceptic". And yet a majority of Irish citizens said no to Lisbon. If Ganly and one or two other Libertas candidates were to be elected next May, it would even out the picture somewhat. There are rumours that the very able Caroline Simons might run in Dublin. I know many people who would welcome that.