WHATEVER suddenly became of all the political and media blather about Ireland being the wealthiest county on earth?

RTÉ gets the wobbles over an ad mentioning the crib, but broadcasts the Angelus every day. The lunatics have taken over the media.

NED O’KEEFFE should resign his seat now and let East Cork voters speak for the nation.

A tiny State of fewer than five million people with a few major hospitals must dump patients in corridors and on trolleys or put them on endless waiting lists before failing to diagnose a potentially fatal disease. Maybe we’re just an abject race whose moaning and groaning is a cover for our civic cowardice?

If YOU voted back that self-serving lot last summer, come out now with your hands up.

SO our own wee Daniel is bigger than Elvis or Madonna.

WHAT’S worse than Bertie’s greed?

WITH Brown in across the water and Biffo awaiting his chance here, we can all look forward to a charm-free future in Anglo-Irish relations.

Independents’ day?

FUNNY how the worm turns.

A FEW weeks ago, a Croke Park official blamed freak weather conditions for the ‘glassy’ playing surface that had players slipping and sliding all over the place.

I HAVEN’T a hope of a hurling ticket for Thurles next Saturday.

OH God, not the World Cup again.

I WAS disgusted to see the Australian prime minister addressing what seemed to be a half-empty Dáil chamber on Tuesday last.

May Day! May Day!