We need to smoke out green weed

Something terrible is happening to the waters around the coast of Ireland.

After the June Bank Holiday, Our Lady’s Strand in beautiful Inchydoney in west Cork, the beach where Fianna Fáil leaders love to be photographed (Our Leaders’ Strand, some locals call it) was inundated with green weed. While global warming may be partly responsible, many environmentalists hold that lack of infrastructure and (once again) effective regulation are to blame.

In summer, the weed is regularly bulldozed away to keep the golden sands clean for holidaymakers or (some locals say) in order that our taoiseachs and ministers posing for photo-shoots after sumptuous dinners at the Inchydoney Hotel should not slip and fall on their arses, thus providing a literal manifestation of the metaphorical situation into which they have plunged this lovely country over the last 10 years.