Absent TDs arise from the ash cloud when expenses beckon

JUST who does God think he is trying to separate TDs from their divine right to lavish expenses?

April’s Icelandic volcanic ash explosion may have been classed as an act of the Almighty that temporarily crippled international air traffic, but that is no reason for deputies to miss out on claiming Dáil attendance allowances merely because, er, they did not attend the Dáil.

It may be the Age of Austerity for the rest of us, but it is forever the Age of Entitlement for our hardworking TDs.