Couldn't have happened to a nicer person. Really.

Check out Martyin Turner's cartoon of the unctious Pee Flynn. If only you could get it printed on loo roll. I couldn't find it online, but jeez, this pic gives you a good idea:

Yours to cut out and keep. On the mantelpiece to keep the little 'uns away from the fireplace. urrgh *shudders*....


If nothing else, the Mahon Report will cause those, whose fattening snouts were stuck in the national trough of dodgy dealing and parish pump hustling (see above) to get their oily, curly tails yanked for good measure in print, albeit belatedly, to the disgrace of our society. 


The other thing which is fun to observe is the Irish Times or Sam Smyth or Fintan O'Toole  jump up and down about the fact that, like the smart kid in class who knows the answer to an awkward but obvious question. They were right all along. But how good is it to be right about the fact that in Ireland, we have a sneaking regard for two bit chancers and local hoodlums parading as 24 carat statesmen and figures of reverence? To know that really we can't help our basest desires for money and low brow influence and not be listened to is really a damning indictment of our collective standards for ourselves.  


One question remains unanswered is: will anyone actually swing for this? Probably not. So we may pillory while the Mahon sun shines. Let the games begin.