Séamas O'Reilly: Cosmic Governmental overspends from recent Irish history

I asked friends, acquaintances — and finally the entire internet — to furnish me with as many cosmic overspends as they could remember from recent Irish history — welcome to the mouth of madness

Séamas O'Reilly: "You might say my initial estimates for the time and labour it would take to put this list together ballooned beyond my expectations. I’m shocked by this, personally, but can only say that mistakes were made. I will learn from them. This will not happen again."

This week, the Government made us all experts in building manufacture. This was a surprise to me, personally, since I am no great loss to the construction trade. 

My house is a grisly graveyard of wardrobes dragged screaming from flat packs, crucified into place like medieval apostates, a warning to planks everywhere that they are not safe within my home; shelves that undulate like marble runs, projecting nails at torture angles, kept in place now only as a testament to my hubris.