Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

Listening to Deputy Chief Lenny Harper’s news conference about the police investigation at Haut-de-la-Garenne, it is obvious that his inquiries have rattled the cages of some powerful people on Jersey, and perhaps further afield. These are powerful people who either were involved in abuse or who stood idly by knowing full well the horrors that were occurring. These people are now using the media to try and discredit the police and those who have made allegations. In Ireland, and especially in Cavan, we know all about how such evil powerful people are able to manipulate the media to their own devilish ends. Indeed they often have many media outlets in their pockets.

Our new taoiseach Pretty Boy Biffo has been castigated for using a profanity, or in plain man’s language a curse, though this seems to reek of double standards. The offending word was used not in connection with a member of the opposition, but members of the National Consumer Agency, an unelected, overpaid group of quangoites. it goes without saying that such elevated and self-important people never use bad language, and even if they do they can never be held accountable for such actions. Here in Cavan we used to have a public official whose discourses were peppered with profanities – unless someone else had written a speech for him. He was inestimably proud of his “colourful” language, and anyone who criticised him too openly was leaving themselves open to victimisation.

Now if I were Biffo I wouldn’t apologise. Instead I would have borrowed a line from Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys – I only said it; I didn’t do it.