Romantic Ireland is in a hurry

So here's what Irish nationalism has come to. Our glorious Soldiers of Destiny, soi-disant Irish Republicans, inheritors of the nationalist struggle and perpetual party of government did their obligatory outing to the Wolfe Tone commemoration on Sunday [for our overseas readers, Wolfe Tone is not that band on the juke box in your local Irish bar, but one of the many doomed nationalist heroes of days gone by].

So what were Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern (no relation) up to during the event? From the front page of the Irish Times, we can see: looking at Dermot's watch.