Ask Audrey: They're all wizards in the sack, the Dubs

Sorting out Cork people for ages

Ask Audrey has been sorting Cork people out for ages.

C’mere, how do you become a top-ranking public servant? I heard on Joe Duffy during the week that top-ranking public servants are going to get a 15% pay rise. Joe was raging because if they get another few rises like that, they’ll nearly earn as much as he does. I won’t go for Joe’s job because I couldn’t be listening to gomies from Offaly ringing in to complain how they got caught on a tarmacadam scam, but the top-ranking public servant gig looks right up my alley. 

From what I can see, the job mainly involves refusing to talk to reporters on the way into some tribunal of investigation, and then when you get in there, saying it was all someone else’s fault. I don’t think I’d need years of training to do that. Budgie says that I’m mad as the Man from Macroom, that those jobs are like hens’ teeth, but come on, like, it’s time they got the ordinary man in at the top so he can tell all the posh langers working for him the way things really are. (I don’t mind the ordinary woman getting a job in there either, as long as she dolls herself up a bit)