Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week: DIY July 1, 2012
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Don’t have time to do this properly today, so if anyone wants to offer anything in the comments please do so. To get started, our old friend Marc Coleman praises the government’s “success” over the bank debt in Europe, but focuses on the real problem.
The economy cannot wait until 2014 for key decisions on the Croke Park deal. From the transactional cautious leadership he showed in Europe, Kenny now needs to come home with a much more transformational and decisive game.
Prior to 1920, no self-respecting Ulster Unionist would be seen dead without a Cork-born Marxist in their entourage. (Presumably the Cork-born qualifier is intended to count Paul Bew out of consideration)
John Paul McCarthy’s piece was hilarious. He outdid himself this time in the tortured circumlocutions of praise to Harris and chums. He’s like the Dennis Hopper character in Apocalypse Now, shouting “He’s a great man, I’m a little man” to Harris’ Colonel Kurtz.
What was amusing about the piece was that virtually everything in it was wrong, based on his misreading on an Irish Times article earlier in the week.
He bangs on throughout about ‘hedge schools’, unaware that the conference in Kilmainham he’s criticizing (despite the fact that he knows nothing about what went on during it) wasn’t a History Ireland Hedge School. In fact, it had nothing to do with History Ireland – it was Universities Ireland and Institute of North-South studies. He just looked at the caption of the photograph (which referred to a different event), skimmed the article, and went off into the stratosphere from there. With all due respect, it really was like the worst kind of blog-writing.
And wrong, wrong, wrong, all the way through.
Plus the inevitable reference to Daniel Corkery. Is he involved in some kind of running bet, to mention Corkery in every article he writes?
All these strained football analogies would make you long for the titanic