Paying for garden is blooming mad

SO, we’ve won the Carling Cup, the Heineken Cup, we’ve had the Queen and President Obama to make us all feel so happy and confident that now we can wait for the tourists to arrive and all will be well.

God help us. On the other side of the coin, the taxpayers, thanks to Minister Leo Varadkar, are now picking up a tab of €2 million for a garden in the Chelsea Flower Show. Am I the only one in Ireland who has not got a brain big enough to understand how this TD has the audacity of making this decision on our behalf to okay this money being spent.

The proud people of Cork should dwell on why your city fathers are sanctioning the expenditure of this sort of money.