Take That Mary
The news that public money was spent on tickets to a Robbie Williams concert is just one more example of the grab culture that
Maybe Roddy fancied him
predominates here. Don’t ask “Is it right or wrong?” only “Can I?” The fact that minister Mary Coughlan defended it shows that she is just another rotting, yes rotting member of the cabinet. I used to think that Mary Coughlan was, well, not quite as bad as the rest of them. I think of the work she is supposed to have done with groups like Forfas and the National Competitiveness Council. Now she’s just as big a WHORE as the other people called Mary at cabinet level. Truth of the old Italian proverb: Chi va con lo zoppo impara zoppicare.” Who walks with the lame learns to limp, or, if you lie down with dogs you’ll get up scratching.
There is another aspect of this affair that is reprehensible. Last time I looked Robbie Williams was a British pop star. If they had to squander money on a concert why couldn’t they have gone to an Irish gig? Daniel O’Donnell, Mary Black, Foster & Allen? Oh no, Croppy Lies Down! If the tickets had been to an Irish act, like Daniel (who’s a constituent of hers), the minister would have been able to say that the artists were a credit to the country, who gave employment and paid their taxes sometimes, and that the visit was part of a worthwhile attempt to showcase Irish talent. Now this would never have happened under Albert Reynolds’ watch. Oh no. I still recall how the late Joe Dolan described Albert as “one of the daysenest fellas in the rack … the business”.
I view the present government as a bad dream. I wish they’d pack up and fuck off. Of course, I see visions of them all piling into the government jet, which because it would be overloaded with their loot, not to mention Mary Harney herself, would loose altitude and crash, maybe over the Bog of Allen but in the taoiseach’s own constituency.
