Aren't you just fed up with hobbits and hippies going on about global warming?Isn't there a large part of you that loves driving cars with big engines, flying off to Europe for the weekend and heating your home?And don't you secretly yearn for the day when the globe actually does warm a bit so that Ireland doesn't seem like it's lost in a permanent monsoon mist all the time?Well, feel guilty no longer. If it were not for the global warming phenomenon, we wouldn't be having cool animal death matches like this one.Be honest - who wouldn't pay good money to see a shark fighting a polar bear?Apparently the bears are heavier with longer reach, but the sharks are older and faster.In the blue corner, sporting the fin and razor-sharp rows of meat-shredding teeth...In the red corner, weighing in...
Okay, so first the global warming advocates tell us we need to cut down fossil fuels because of carbon emissions.Then Green politicians start demanding more biofuel use to replace the oil and petrol that's running out.Then, because foodstuffs are being diverted to biofuel production, grain prices soar, other food prices follow, and 100 million people end up starving, according to a top secret World Bank report that got leaked to the Guardian newspaper.I have a potential solution to the problem. Reverse the production of biofuels immediately. And in the interim, while the world's starving await the next harvest, let them eat their Greens.When will these back-to-the-middle-ages, yoghurt-knitting hobbits stop concocting junk science to justify their Luddism?And when will the rest of us stop...
History will not record that Louth Fianna Fail councillor Tommy Murphy dealt Bertie the first cut.Nor will history record that Progressive Democrat senator and leader candidate Fiona O'Malley dealt Bertie that first cut.Despite the belated scramble by the abject Green Party leader, Minister for Environment John Gormley to slide a knife into Ahern, history will not record that he dealt the Taoiseach the first blow.No, the first of the thousand cuts that kill Bertie's Taoiseachship came from Minister for Health, Mary Harney.Let me be clear. I do not like Mary Harney or her policies in the Department of Health. She has presided, literally, over a repudiation of responsibility that verges on criminal and has undoubtedly contributed to circumstances in the Irish health service which have cost...
The Green Party were once thought to be too 'flakey' for government. Their insistence on principled stands on issues that mattered to them meant that prior to the rainbow government, no one would consider them as coalition partners.They ran in the recent election on a series of principled stands, and their leader vowed not to enter government with Fianna Fail after the election.As a result, they garnered many votes from Fine Gael and Labour voters who were intent on seeing Fianna Fail removed from office.But after ten days of negotiations, during which they were mightily screwed by the Fianna Fail negotiating team, the Greens settled to go into government with them.What's worse is that they sold out every one of their principled stands in order to gain access to government. What's worse...
Well, the Greens have been bought off by the Prince of Darkness and will now enter government with Fianna Fail.They will replace the previous small party, the PDs, who were decimated by the electorate following their dalliance in government with Fianna Fail.The Greens may just have signed their own suicide note.Certainly it must now mean the end of Clever Trevor Sargent's leadership. Only a few months ago, he said he would resign the leadership if the party goes into coalition with Fianna Fáil after the next Election. However, Mr Sargent also said that he would make himself available to serve as a Minister in such a coalition. So don't expect him to stay out of the ministerial merc on principles....
As promised, here are some pics of Michael McDowell at the recent general election count at the RDS, during which he made his speech resigning from political life.There has been some debate in the media and online about whether McDowell was mobbed and jeered by Sinn Fein supporters as he made his speech. This first pic clearly indicates that it was the media who did the mobbing.McDowell was no sooner in the RDS than he was surrounded by photographers and hacks, as this pic indicates.Here he is giving his speech about loving his country and so on.And following his departure, where he was indeed jeered by a People Before Profit member carrying a sign reading 'Michael McDole', John Gormley of the Green Party arrived in time to be declared elected.Finally, some people might be pleased to know...
Exit polls put FF on 41.6%, FG on 26.3%, Labour on 9.9%, SF 7.3%, Greens 4.8%, PDs 2.6% and others at 4.8%.Some websites and news sources make that a FF government, and Paddy Power has already paid out on Bertie as next Taoiseach.But my number crunching suggests that that can only lead to a rainbow, unless Labour do a FF deal or FF go into bed with SF and/or the Greens.It still seems to be an extremely tight election, people. Roll on the first counts at lunchtime!I'll be in the RDS this evening monitoring six of the Dublin counts and will be reporting back to Cian and the boys at Irishelection.com with live......