Season’s greetings
by planetparker
I’d like to wish all my friends and readers a really great Christmas and prosperous 2008.
Readers of my piece in the Cavan Echo of December 21st may have thought that my little attack on the Cavan Arse-wipe showed a lack of Christmas spirit. It is just that I find it hard to muster up anything positive for that journal or the miserable fuckers who run it.
Remember Max Bygraves’ classic catch-phrase? Well, I wanna tell you a story. This may explain my lack of seasonal bonhomie when dealing with the Anglo-Celt.
A few Christmases ago I received a visit from a “journalist” who works for the ‘Celt. I always found this individual a most irritating little piece of vermin, and my initial emotion was to tell him to get lost, but it was Christmas – season of good will even to this fellow. He told me he was writing an article on the history of Cavan town and asked me for some information, which I provided in a written form. A few weeks later the said article appeared. Now I’m not vain and I didn’t want to see my name in the piece, but I was gobsmacked to see the information with which I supplied him reproduced verbatim (that’s word-for-word for ‘Celt journalists) and described as the results of his lengthy research. I felt cheated and resolved that I would never be had again. True, you can’t cheat an honest man, but you sure as hell can cheat a sucker, and that’s what I’d been taken for.
So Happy Christmas one and all (but this does not extend to the Anglo-Celt).
