The DOBlog

Thought I’d take a quick time-out to plug the brother’s blog over at http://anothercryingshame.blogspot.com.

I particularly liked his post on the Electoral Consitutencies issue, especially his description of Dick Roche as the late lamented Government’s top crisis manager… which I quote here…

…that man is the greatest crisis manager the FF/PD’s have. So great are his skills of crisis management that he has been known to leave entirely solvable problems alone for years until they become the sort of crises that have citizens of the state doubled over with the shitty squits, just so he can flex his crisis solving muscles.

As he is younger and less mature, he can get away with things that a more mature mind would hesitate over (and then quote anyway). Some elements of accuracy may be lacking in that description, but Turlough is right - there has been a Zapp Brannigan-esque approach to managing things.

So, the Dail has dissolved. The Mahon Tribunal has been frozen. The franchise of students and commuters has been all but evaporated. The Constitution appears to have been transformed into just an insubstantial vapour.

My understanding of the physics of matter moving between states (from frozen to disolved for example) suggests to me that it is inevitable that we’ll have some leaks in the near future.

RTE radio have just announced that the Mahon Tribunal is (as suspected) postponing the next phase of its hearings until after the election. What a fortuitous coincidence. It does recommence right after the election - when the haggling will be going on about who will be in the Government.

Also, the brother has rowed in with his euro’s worth on the timing of the election. I am sure that if I hadn’t beaten him to the punch he would have out-pendatried me as he is, to borrow PJ O’Rourke’s description, ‘the political nut who lives around here’.

I’m just a commuter whose opinion appears not to matter to a Taoiseach who seems to be out of touch with the realities of Celtic Tiger life.