Finian McGrath has withdrawn his support for the Fianna Fáil led Government.

Too late Finian ….. a leopard cannot hide its spots.

We know where your allegiances lay.

You made that clear when you voted against education!

The tern ‘turncoat’ still springs to mind when I hear the name Finian McGrath!

I see we have attained the distinction of having the dirtiest city in Ireland!

(I guess we can’t sing ‘Beautiful City …. my home by the Lee’ anymore? We could try ‘Pollutiful City, green and so smelly, pollutiful City my home by the green Lee’. We’d have a devil of a time getting the words to rhyme but what the hey it’s worth a piece of paper!)

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I see Fianna Fáil are ‘revisiting’ the whole Medical Card issue …. pity they didn’t think it through before they caused angst amongst the senior citizens of our country.

By all means …. means test it … but raise the threshold so that the middle income pensioners can have a reasonable standard of living.

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A Fianna Fáil own goal moment ~ Budget 2009!

There is some semblance of integrity in Irish politics.

Joe Behan, a Fianna Fáil backbencher, has resigned from the party because of his moral opposition to the automatic removal of a medical card entitlement to over 70′s and the upping of the pupil/teacher ratio from 27:1 to 28:1.

Joe Behan is a former school principal. I applaud his stance. I applaud his fortitude against the Fianna Fáil machine.

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“I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again”. ~ William Penn

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they cab be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God.” ~ Anne Frank

I like this song.

It’s by a band called Avenged Sevenfold.

Enjoy!

What can I say?

Class sizes are going to increase (doesn’t bother me …. I’m bucking the trend!  )

Overall, to be honest (and I ain’t a Fianna Fáil fan) … it could have been worse considering the shit we’re in.

I will be down a few hundred euro in the year but hey so will everyone else. I just don’t spend it if I ain’t got it.

I guess the new Dell netbook is on hold for the time being!

(March 22, 1923 – September 22, 2007)

Marcel Mangel, better known by his stage name Marcel Marceau was a world renowned mime artist and he is credited with reviving the art of mime after World War II.

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