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I know it's a hard call.After all, malaria kills up to three million people and infects over 500 million every year.Fundamentalist religious beliefs not only cause repression among those who espouse them, but also lead to the oppression, usually by violence, of those who don't.But of all the evils incomprehensibly permitted by God to ravage this poor planet, is there any greater cause of human misery than that rip-roaring cunt Michael O'Leary?We are informed by experts that experiencing misery is an essential part of truly comprehending happiness in life.But surely there is absolutely no excuse, no lesson to be learned, no mitigating factor in the unremitting evil that is Michael O'Leary and his army of hellspawn?By now you may have gathered that I broke a vow I made to myself, the...

Here's some quality bit of research done yesterday by Fine Gael. Basically, they uncovered the fact that the Dublin councils paid out a mammoth 15 million euro in a four year period to people who tripped and fell on the footpath.Now, have they paved Dublin with minefields when I wasn't looking, or does this sound like another compo tidal wave to you?The worst part, or best depending on whether you're a member of the Law Society or not, is that half of that money went to solicitors.This isn't the first example of the current government shovelling money at our learned friends in the Four Courts, of course. The tribunal payouts have made multimillionaires of many legal eagles, or as I prefer to refer to them, tax-sucking parasites on society.Interestingly, the Dublin councils managed to...