Cumann cumann do the locomotion with me
It seems the Soldiers of Destiny are attempting to re-form in Cavan, and come out of the burrows of shame into which they have quite rightly retreated.
My sister recently received an invitation to a cumann meeting in Cavan town. The invitation listed all of the great things Fianna Fail had done for Cavan town, though surely such pork-barrel politics is seen for the scam it is. When any political party takes credit for anything I’m reminded of a comment made by Al Gore in the 1992 Presidential debate in the US, when he said George Bush Sr’s attempts to take credit for the fall of the Berlin wall was a bit like the cock taking credit for the sunrise.
The invitation went on to mention minister Brendan Smith, but failed to refer to his reluctance to meet with a local farmers’ delegation, or his insistence on using a private limousine to take him from a hotel to a nearby conference centre, even though his colleague, Minister Mary Coughlan, was staying in the same five-star hotel. Brendan may be personally honest, but yet he sits at cabinet with a group of lying gangsters whose policies include stealing money from the blind and then refusing to own up to their cowardly actions.
And then it finished by mentioning Fianna Fail councillors, but once again it was quite about the gargantuan sums in travel expenses racked up by some of them. But we must be even-handed here. The pursuance of the “grab” culture is just as evident amongst members of Fine Gael.
As for the invitation I am assured by my sister that she has no intention of accepting it.
