Wow!

The Independent leads today with a story attacking Dennis O’Brien.  Quelle surprise!

Does The Independent…

…actually pay Kevin Myers for this kind of stuff?

Cathal O Searcaigh is right…

…about one thing anyway: he is lying in the gutter. And that’s where he belongs.

Some of the attempts at justification by his fellow Aosdana members are stomach-turning, but at least Mannix Flynn has the courage to tell it like it is.

Guess what happens when…

…you appoint a succession of muppets as Ministers for Justice?

First we had Mr. Zero Tolerance, then we had Mr. Pompous Ass and now we have Mr. Smug and Self-Satisfied.

This is what happens.

“Three attacks in six months. It’s hard to believe. I’ve been working the streets of Dublin for 25 years and I’ve never seen anything like this. It is like a war zone out there at three in the morning. I feel so sad that this has happened to my city.”

I’m sad, too. And mad – especially when I read the next sentence:

Not one of the perpetrators of the attacks has been brought to justice.

That says it all.

It’s official!

Brian Lenihan is a muppet.

Okay, Mr Justice John Edwards actually said that the grounds for his ruling were the inadequacy of reasons given, irrationality and the perceived arbitrariness of the process.

But that’s just legal jargon for, “Brian Lenihan is a muppet”.

There’s an old saying…

It goes like this: if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Bertie Ahern lay down with some particularly flea-bitten dogs over the course of his political life – Haughey, Burke and Lawlor, in particular.

Now watch him scratch.

And isn’t it interesting how the Fianna Fail dogs have suddenly stopped howling for the blood of the Tribunal?

Quick question

I’ve just been listening to RTE and I have to ask: is there a more smug, irritating, self-satisfied gobshite out there than Derek Mooney?

Other than yours truly, of course 🙂

Absent on ‘Day One’

Oops!

In her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Hillary Clinton has touted her experience in the White House as preparation to lead in a time of crisis. “Ready on Day One,” has been her slogan.

But an initial reading of some of the more than 11,000 pages of Clinton’s schedules from her days as first lady, released yesterday by the National Archives and the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library, shows that often she was far from the site of decision making during some of the most pivotal events of Bill Clinton’s presidency.

Presumably including events involving Monica Lewinsky…

Apparently we still believe in God

According to this story in The Examiner, anyway.  We just don’t act like we do.

Me? I believe in Santa.

Cork priest renders unto Caesar…

…God has to wait his turn.