Sinead’s lousy treatment at hands of media a real cause for concern

WHOEVER gets to be health minister in the reshuffle should pay attention to Sinead O’Connor. Her proposal for a national de-lousing day has a lot going for it.

A single day devoted to exterminating head lice would be a great improvement on individual parents being mortified by periodic “your offspring is lousy” notes from the local school. Even when parents obediently pour stinky chemicals on said offspring, half the time, re-infestation happens a few months later.

A national de-lousing day could interrupt the life-cycle of the louse and stop its onward crawl. Instead of car-free day (which, I’m convinced, causes cars to breed like rabbits and come out to park on motorways) we could have a national day that actually achieved something.