There’s a sunny side to the wage-free economy

WE have 6,000 people willing to work for nothing in the Garda Reserve while their full-time colleagues treat them with contempt.

And Justice Minister Michael McDowell will most likely get another 6,000 to volunteer to do the prison officers’ jobs free of charge, too.

Labour will be free and contractors from Eastern Europe can build the new prison in Killsallaghan and the new runway at Dublin airport to go out to Kilsallaghan so that all the prisoners can have a terminal of their own for holidays paid from the money saved minding them.