Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

Grouch O'Dea

Minister for Defence Willie Wit your whistle O’Dea has admitted that a sworn statement he made to the High Court contained material which was, as Oliver North would have said, radically at odds with the truth.

 Unfortunately I’ve been out of the loop for a while now (drink, drugs, bisto gravy granule abuse etc.), but in my day making a sworn statement to a court containing information that you knew to be false was called perjury. But as Willie knows that so many of his colleagues have an ambivalent attitude towards telling the truth he just feels he wants to fit in.

 Isn’t it comforting to know that at a time of economic hardship the government which is imposing unfair and draconian measures on the Irish people is composed of a pack of liars. And if they are not telling porkies they are defending liars and cheats. Take tanaiste Mary Coughlan. One of the reasons why she never bothered to get back to Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary was because she was too busy defending the likes of Roddy Molloy, the trip to the Robbie Williams concert, and other members of the rusty circle.

 I’ve got one thing to say to Michael O’Leary: Good on ya mate!