While #Fag-gate starts to rumble (it’s still August unfortunately) some political correspondents are clearly desperate for news to joke about it. It is a joke right? Niamh Lyons is a political correspondent with the Irish Daily Mail – wishful tweeting?

It’s not the usual political correspondent tweet (no they’re not all devoid of humour but they are generally careful enough), but then the Mail is not your usual newspaper is it? And to think that politicians have seen articles (mountains) made out of tweets (molehills) quite a bit recently – Dermot Looney and Dan Boyle come to mind.