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2014: CARICATURE ARTIST RAY SHERLOCK DISPLAYS A DRAWING OF ANGELA MERKEL AND ENDA KENNY. Huffington Post. March 2014 Caricature artist Ray Sherlock displays a drawing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Taoiseach Enda Kenny before they arrive for a press conference at Government Buildings in Dublin today.  

2013: THE BIG PICTURE. BBC News Website. 28th July, 2013 Naomi  five, from Dublin, looks at an artwork entitled Shady Ladies by artist Frank O'Dea in Iveagh Gardens, Dublin. 

2013: OUCH! ENDA GETS SPANKED IN THE ARTS IN MERKEL SPOOF. The Herald. August 30th, 2013.h  A PAINTING of Enda Kenny with his trousers around his ankles getting a spanking by a dominatrix-style Angela Merkel has drawn plenty of smiles at a Dublin art gallery. And the Dublin artist who created it feels no need to flee the country – unlike his Russian counterpart, who is on the run from authorities there for his sketch showing President Vladimir Putin in a negligee combing the hair of prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, in knickers and a bra. Sympathy Glasnevin native Ray Sherlock...

2010: BIFFO CAUGHT IN THE BUFFO. The Sun. December 11th, 2010 Looks like Taoiseach Brian Cowen is happy dancng in the nip - but it turns out he DIDN'T pose for this pic.  The Fianna Fail chief is cheekily depicted in his birthday suit as part of a new art exhibition.  Dublin artist Ray Sherlock, left, was commissioned to come up with a painting for an art gallery's Christmas window display. Balla Bán director Frank O'Dea said: "The painting has generated a lot of laughter from passers-by." The piece shows our leader getting into the festive season, having been stripped...

2013: WHEN DID THE IRISH BECOME SO ACCEPTING OF THEIR LOT? Financial Times. December 13th, 2013 In last summer’s July heatwave, a man in a smart suit and a bowler hat (a sheaf of banknotes stuck in the band) set up a stall outside Dublin’s brutalist Central Bank building. It was a mocked-up confessional box. However, the legend carved into it was not the usual INRI, but that of the defunct Anglo Irish Bank. The performance artist Frank O’Dea was performing his piece Confessions of a Banker. Passers-by appreciated the irony. But now that Ireland has formally exited from the...