Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

I hate seeing cruelty to animals. Some people may recall the old Mart & Market on RTE, where the livestock prices from the country’s marts was accompanied by a very grainy piece of film of a man poking a poor demented creature around a ring.

 Well all this came flooding back to me just now when I turned on TG4. The advertised program was live coverage of the Dail. Instead there was a picture of a bespectacled pig in a suit. He was grunting wildly and incoherently, trying to fend off the prods of threatening spectators. He was obviously in pain and distress as he was urinating and defecating all around him, so the smell must have been so atrocious. This was so upsetting that I switched channels to Cash in the Attic. Someone tried to tell me that this was our Prime Minister, but they were obviously pulling my leg.