Holding on tight to one of the last luxuries of the Celtic Tiger era

ONCE you get into the toilet paper issue, you’re verbally unsafe.

I’ll give you an example. Can John McGuinness TD, the unfortunate former minister, protest about this controversy blowing up in his face? Well, he could, but the sniggers would be immediate. He could say he had no hand, act or part in choosing luxury toilet paper for his former offices, but even that would lead him into negative territory. He could get into a debate as to what actually constitutes “luxury” when it comes to loo rolls, but where would that get him, I ask you? He has wisely said little on this issue.

Which, in some way, is a pity. People are always yelling for an end to the silence on particular issues, usually issues that have been talked out so often the silence is welcome. I’m calling for an end to the silence on toilet tissue. This is a major issue. This matters to us all. If there were an opinion poll, you wouldn’t get many “don’t knows” on the toilet tissue topic.