Bare faced cheek
I dropped in to David's Barber Shop on the Antrim Road this morning to witness not one, but two MLAs getting a close shave for Children In Need.
Alban Maginness was the trendsetter, dispensing with his 37 year old moustache for charity. Then Daithi McKay took up the gauntlet, sacrificing his much younger 'tache and beard. I asked him where Gerry Adams was, and he told me the party still needed its grey beards for the current complex negotiations.
At one point I applied a shaving foam and brush to Alban's upper lip, but balked at the chance of wielding the cut throat razor. However attractive the prospect might be of drawing blood from our MLAs, I decided that David McGreevy, who has more than fifty years experience in the trade, would make a safer pair of hands than me. Even so, Alban ended up giving a bit if blood, as well as a lot of bristles, for the cause.
As viewers of 91Èȱ¬ Newsline will see, David McGreevy came up with the best one liner. "These boys might not be able to share power" he mused "but at least they share the same barber." And watch out for Alban's reaction when it is suggested that we might call for Alasdair McDonnell to tend his wound...
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