FAIR dues to Martin McGuinness (right). He has attacked the Catholic Church for "miserably failing the victims of clerical child abuse".
Good man Martin. I presume he has already been down to his local PSNI station with the names of his IRA colleagues who murdered and maimed children during their 30 campaign of terror.
IT'S FULL steam ahead for the National Roads Authority's plan to destroy everything good in Ireland. They proudly destroyed Tara and now we have to pick up the tab, running to millions every year, because tolls aren't what the NRA thought they would be.
They have ruined scenic routes in Kerry by replacing stone walls with concrete slabs. And now they want to wipe out the wonderful road between Tralee and Dingle.
Do they think tourists who drive from Tralee to Dingle just want to get there as quickly as possible? Do they not realise that the drive is part of the wonderful experience of that wonderful part of the country?
I think it's their mission statement: Let's build big ugly roads to get tourists to beautiful places which we are destroying with the big ugly roads we're building to get them there.
I WAS sitting at home the other day, just out of hospital, looking at the rain and feeling very low. Dammit, I knew something was worrying me, but I didn't know what it was.
And then this ad came on the television. "Don't let fungal toenail spoil your summer," it said. THAT'S IT! I cried.
There was I thinking that, after three weeks in hospital, I might be worrying about my health. Or maybe, like everyone else in the country, it might have been money that was making me uptight.
But no. It was fungal toenail.
Thank you advertiser, whoever you are. I will now make sure fungal toenail does NOT spoil my summer.
WE'RE having a little trouble with black ants. So we bought those little traps which lure the creatures in and kill them. At least, that's the theory. We put the traps down and it's fascinating.
I could sit for hours watching the ants running around the traps, climbing across the top and doing what looks like wheelies when they reach the summit of the allegedly deadly snares which are supposed to kill them.
They're having mighty craic, but I'm at the end of my tether. I appear to have opened a fun park for ants!
I DON'T know if you've had a good look at the list of names of those people so far chosen to carry the Olympic Torch in Dublin. Ronnie Delany. Had to be. Man's a legend. Our medal-winning boxers. You couldn't leave them out.
And there's a rake of athletes and sportsmen and women of all sorts including, I'm glad to say, Paul McGrath, Shane Horgan, Henry Shefflin, Bernard Brogan and others who have inspired us over the years.
And then there's the Executive Vice President of Coke. And Jedward. And a traveller. Good luck to them all.
But I have to confess, I'm marginally baffled as to how they came up with the list. I know I wasn't asked who I thought should be on it. And despite having played for the U-14 rugby team in Blackrock, I wasn't asked.
In fact, I don't know who, if anyone, was asked their opinion as to who should be on the list. Don't see any writers there. Don't see a poet. No politician or banker, thank God.
But no nurse, doctor, teacher, trade unionist, boy scout. I mean, you could go on for ever and I know everyone can't be represented. I'm only wondering how and why they chose who they chose. I'm a bit suspicious about the traveller being named so soon after the
sulky racing business in Cork. I wonder if they're planning to 'display' sulky racing in London as part of the build-up to the Games.
Can't you see it? Down Regent Street, up The Mall, twice around Buckingham Palace, up the Embankment with a finish on Westminster Bridge. At rush hour. Maybe not.
I'LL thank my friend Ger for passing this one on to me.
"We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage," Rush Limbaugh (below) said on his radio show on Wednesday, in response to Barack Obama's (right) endorsement of same-sex marriages.
Limbaugh's first, second, third and fourth wives could not be reached for comment.
THE ELECTION result in France was barely in. And someone asked the important question.
How long before Carla Bruni (pic with Nicolas Sarkozy) trades up?
