As none of you will remember, I posted a riveting exposé last year on the Irish Government’s €336,000 parliamentary bike shed. Well, forget that... (I know, I know, you already have) because there’s worse!
In a country where 16,000 people are officially homeless, where you can’t get a house for love nor money, where 60% of the population is on some form of state handout, and the national debt now tops €239 billion, what pressing priority has the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless (pictured below), announced?
Well, and this is no joke, the princely sum of 568,000, yes, more than half a million euro is to be spent on much needed and vital research into...wait for it...gender balance in opera. Opera? 568,000 euro? The minister is mad. Sure you’d almost get two bike sheds for that! He should be locked up in a secure facility immediately, if not sooner, for his own good, and more importantly, for ours.
Can someone remind me again why it is we need government? Oh yeah. Without government, who'd build the roads?
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The first image is mine
The second is not
