Anglo tapes no laughing matter

A few nights before the first of the Anglo Irish Bank tapes was played, I watched an episode of Fr Ted that made me laugh.

When Ted tells a visiting American priest that he raised a hundred pounds in a parish raffle, Fr Buzz scoffs and says “Do you know what we do with a hundred dollar bill back in my parish? We wipe our ass with it”.

I wasn’t laughing when I heard the Anglo tapes. The bank put the fictional Fr Buzz completely in the shade: It wiped its metaphorical ass with our entire economy and national sovereignty and calmly flushed our futures down the toilet.