Brian Cowen: Frightening when clothed; terrifying when naked. Photo: JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images
Meanwhile in Ireland there’s much hilarity over the story of a Banksy-style prankster who hung portraits of the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, at the Royal Hibernian Academy and the National Gallery of Ireland. It turns out Mr Cowen is indeed an oil painting. Or two, in fact. As the Irish Times reports: “He was shown holding his underpants in one painting and a toilet roll in the other.”
All a spot of harmless japery you might think. But no, apparently not!
A detective from Pearse St Garda station visited the offices of Today FM yesterday afternoon looking for email contacts the Ray D’Arcy Show had with the artist who painted the nude portraits of Brian Cowen that were hung in two Dublin galleries. On his show this morning, D’Arcy said the show’s producer Will Hanafin had spoken with the Garda who had told him that “the powers that be want action taken”.
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