Brian’s reshuffle
by planetparker
Credit where credit’s due. Brian Cowen did make some worthwhile changes. Moving Mendacious Mary Hanafin was top notch, while promoting Sean Connick from the backbenches was inspired.
Yet the cabinet continues to have its shady members. Ireland’s health service is barely functioning (and that’s the best that can be said for it), but the globe-trotting sybarite Mary Harney remains in place, even though she has no party allegiance. In spite of the fact that the Health Service is going down in flames Maro continues to fiddle like the Emperor Nero – or should that be tinkle the ivories in her five-star suite? No, she gets someone else to do that – at public expense. In fact given Mary Harney’s liking for piano music, would it not have been better if she had been appointed minister for the Arse … Arts and Mary Hanafin had been cast into the wilderness?
Also this new name for the old department of Social Warfare – the Department of Social Protection is clunky. It sounds like a brand of condom, though this is probably apt considering the number of pricks who’ve always worked there.
As for the Greens .. who?
