DUBLIN

“ONLY IN FUCKING Ireland could you have a group of independent members of parliament, who are entering coalition government, seeking to be granted speaking time from the opposition benches. And have the main government parties row in behind them. It’s beyond absurd. Are they going to make government speeches then race across to the opposition benches and makes speeches opposing the government?”

Jim, from Galway, was standing outside the Irish Parliament rolling his eyes, while the leaders of the two main proposed government parties appeared to argue that this was not an important enough issue to cause a delay in the formal election of the next government.

“They’re yapping on about constitutional imperatives and throwing the word ‘subversion’ about like they had been subject to an RPG attack, when ordinary Irish people are scratching their heads and asking how can we hand the running of the country over to people who think like that? And I’ll tell you this, in any marriage between Simon Harris and Micheal Martin, we saw last night who wears the trousers, never mind who gets the top job, or who has the most seats. Martin looked like a child being talked over by his father. And a very priggish and bossy father too.”