Beyond humour....

Until comparativly recently , writing Blogs or occasionally , getting letters published in the newspapers , on the problems , injustices , dis-honesties , stupidities and lazyness(es?) of people in public life ,was a great outlet for frustrations of a retired 50 -year-taxpaying - citizen of a state still less than 100 years in existence.One could use humour,parody , sarcasm , etc , generally having a go at our inept ,self-serving 'establishment'. All the time believing that one was seriously exaggerating what was happening 'at the top' of our society.

In recent weeks the litany of ineptitudes and downright dis-honesties has become so all-encompassing as to leave no room whatsoever for humour.Even our opposition parties seem to be suffering from inertia.
From our Taoiseach , who is suffering from a fixation with houses and other peoples wealth and is , literally , allowing himself to be carried along by events without any purpose or direction , via our Tanaiste , who is now in the process of forming our first Budget for the past 1o years , that requires intelligent thought....God Help us !...to our Minister for Health determined to force through her agenda no matter what !....and when things go wrong , as they inevitably will , (because Senior Civil Servants will only do what they want to do .)...each of those mentioned will point the finger of blame at some poor fool down the line move him or her sideways and damn them with faint praise and the pantomime will carry on , no one will resign , no one will be blamed and the obscene bonuses and pensions will be paid out to all concerned as if nothing happened , up to , and possibly beyond , the grave.....
I heard someone today , on RTE , praising Todd Andrews........it was his son David Andrews.....as I say the pantomime goes on ..........