Irelands rugby champions and mini-budget

Well, well, well, can anybody have asked for a more exciting game in the final of the Six Nations last week. It went right down to the dying second and Ireland came out triumphant. I am not going to say I told you so and I told you so before the tournament began because the Irish don't do boasting. Instead they do something infinitely worse, they gloat. Which brings me to the next part and that's the new mini-budget.

One thing is for sure, there is not going to be much to gloat about here. Here we have this great little country, poor for centuries, who by the grace of God somehow came into a bit of money ( well we were to proud to crawl to the British for this which in hindsight might not have been a bad move as we would have got away without having to pay any of it back; instead we heroically suffered for another odd fifty years and then got it from the EU instead.) Blimey! but we actually did do something useful and within the space of a few years we astonished the world and created our own little Celtic Tiger. What a time hey! no more silly jokes about the Irish and we gloated in this, but God save us, we ended up blowing it. Look Mammy, all gone.

But how a government took a six billion surplus and turned it into a twenty four billion deficit, remains a mystery. A gullible public was caught on the hop by this because all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, we believed our leaders when they told us that; ' Ireland was in a unique position to weather the global financial crises.' Come's from kissing a blarney stone and all.

Interested, then read on and please leave the old rehashed jokes till last, we are still smarting a bit about this and the scapegoat hunting hasn't quite finished yet.