Budget brought good news but not for the political parties

THE song should never have been a hit anywhere because its title was weird: ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’. (Translation: ‘Hello Mother, Hello Father’.) It should certainly never have been a hit in Ireland because the entire song was about something we didn’t have back in the 1960s: Summer camps.

The kid supposedly writing a letter to his parents from such a summer camp was not having a great time. It was raining all the time, one of his classmates had developed ptomaine poisoning and another had encountered poison ivy. In addition, he wrote,

“All the counsellors hate the waiters