Boxing clever
But you know these fellas, they can’t help themselves. Enda is first to step into the Ring.
TO think Fine Gael accused Micheál Martin of sitting on reports. Following the party’s controversial plan to make Leaving Cert Irish optional, Michael Creed — Fine Gael candidate for Cork North West, which takes in the Múscraí Gaeltacht — was understandably keen to distance himself from HQ pronouncements.
Writing on his own blog, Mr Creed says changes to the curriculum “will only apply following consultations”.
Bearing in mind Fine Gael’s ambition to fix in four years every blessed problem we have, when might we expect these consultations to arrive at a conclusion? Mr Creed assures us: “Irish will not be removed as a compulsory language for the Leaving Certificate for a generation or two.”
DOESN’T Gerry Adams have a new spring in his step these days? Far from being burdened by the past, the Sinn Féin leader is finding it a well of inspiration for his political vocabulary. On Newstalk yesterday, Mr Adams described the Universal Social Charge as “an act of gross terrorism”.
Tomorrow, expect: “Emigration is car bombing our communities.”
FOLLOWING yesterday’s Micheál Martin-Dimitar Berbatov lookalike, hats off to @cormacflynn on Twitter for noting the resemblance between the Labour leader and Danger Mouse’s reluctant assistant Penfold.
Mind you, after the last few days, Mr Gilmore might be glad to accept the role of diminutive, long-suffering sidekick.
WE’VE already flagged several dubious musical accompaniments to some candidates’ campaigns, but right in at the foot of the charts goes the effort from Labour’s Dublin South-Central candidate Michael Conaghan (bit.ly/gNkpG2) — an abysmal take on the Rubberbandits’ Horse Outside.
Nor were the Bandits too impressed by Mr Conaghan’s highway robbery. They emailed: “We in no way endorse your candidacy and are horrified that someone standing for public office would ride roughshod over an artist’s creative property to further their own.”
From Labour’s campaign manifesto: “There is a wealth of artistic talent in Ireland that must not be allowed to go to waste.”
CORK South Central independent Dr Seán Dunphy has represented Ireland at the Global Medical Organisation and been a guest speaker at international stem cell conferences in Athens and Paris.
But it is his impressive ambitions should he be elected that catch the eye. Included, is the development of Cork harbour into “the Venice of Ireland“.
Dr Dunphy also pledges to “move end-of-year exams to April to facilitate children with allergies“, “ban the clamping and towing of all vehicles” and, in a time-shifting manoeuvre, “get rid of the gun from Irish history“.
Do we really need to appoint 166 TDs next week now we’ve found the man to govern Utopia?
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