Musings from the Merse
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Hustings, Irish style.
Man, complete stranger, addressing the wife and her Irish cousin at the Limerick Market. (Apropos of nothing except that there are two weeks to a General Election): Politicians are like bananas-green at first, they quickly become yellow and then you can never find a straight one@
And as an encore: Politicians have three hands: one to the left, one to the right and one sticking out at the back, palm uppermost.
I am sure that would not apply to the Borders?
We drove through mile after mile of posters advertising the various candidates-photos and party allegiances.Perhaps as many as a dozen in half a mile and oftern the same fellow every few hundred yards. And in the middle of nowhere. The more nowhere the more contenders. Its a staggering waste of money given the widespread cynicism over politics generally, and the tendency anyhow, if you vote, to vote for the party you have always favoured.
Man, complete stranger, addressing the wife and her Irish cousin at the Limerick Market. (Apropos of nothing except that there are two weeks to a General Election): Politicians are like bananas-green at first, they quickly become yellow and then you can never find a straight one@
And as an encore: Politicians have three hands: one to the left, one to the right and one sticking out at the back, palm uppermost.
I am sure that would not apply to the Borders?
We drove through mile after mile of posters advertising the various candidates-photos and party allegiances.Perhaps as many as a dozen in half a mile and oftern the same fellow every few hundred yards. And in the middle of nowhere. The more nowhere the more contenders. Its a staggering waste of money given the widespread cynicism over politics generally, and the tendency anyhow, if you vote, to vote for the party you have always favoured.
Comments:
Aggg! The Treaty City - surely you could find nicer places to go in the Irish West Midlands than 5-line-nonsense-poem..... Ballina & Killaloe for example.... the Leviathan of Parsonstown (now Birr)... the Burren (Co. Clare), the Dry Canal in Co. Galway (built a canal, let the water in - forgot to take into account the porous rock it was dug into.... water vanished), Killary Harbour, trip out to the Arans - have I spent too much time in the west of Ireland?
Limerick is greatly changed for the better-and much so since the many months I used to spend in the Wild West when at TCD. Birr is as attarctive as ever and has an interesting connection with Culloden. See next post ot two
They could hardly change Limerick for the worse - it was already an abomination of a place - like Portadown on steroids.
Now you are being kind to Portadown.
Favourite Graffiti from there ; NO POPE HERE under which some one had written;
LUCKY OLD POPE
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Favourite Graffiti from there ; NO POPE HERE under which some one had written;
LUCKY OLD POPE
