The Taiwanese animation studio that made its name producing surreal animated versions of Tiger Woods’ affair and Gordon Brown’s Nokia tantrums has returned to Ireland to offer its take on Brian Cowen’s ousting from power.

Next Media Animation has Brian Cowen – with Guinness in hand – steering the ship of his coalition into choppy waters, leading the Greens to head for the lifeboats.

Micheál Martin is shown as a psychopath throwing daggers into Cowen’s back from several yards away.

For those who didn’t see the original Irish one about the bailout, here it is again:

Next Media Animation makes its money by creating bizarrel videos summarising or depicting stories for which there is no obvious video footage, and selling them onto news agencies around the world. If you haven’t seen them before they are, frankly, unmissable. For all the wrong reasons.