Elaine Byrne: Shiny rock star politics

If Fianna Fáil had pulled the same outrageous stunt as Fine Gael last week, the public outcry would be deafening. And as for Shane Ross, it is impossible for this column-writer to muster vocabulary that could attempt to describe the naked hypocrisy of Mr Stepaside-Garda-Station-Ross.

This is what the shiny new rock star politics looks like.

Enda Kenny blindsided his cabinet with the nomination of the outgoing Attorney General Máire Whelan to the ...