AdamsÕ entry may provide new variation on bank bail-out after all

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We’ve no need to worry any more about the IMF or European Central Bank because our white knight has just crossed the border and rode into Louth – Gerry Adams has been telling us how to run the country for so long he’s now decided to do it himself.

We should ensure that Gerry is given all the airtime we can muster so that he can explain his economic ideals and blueprint for future prosperity – just because he showed the grasp of a

three-year-old last time out is no reason to think he hasn’t been swotting up since.

After all, Gerry comes from an organisation where bank bail-out means three men in balaclavas asking the tellers to fill their bin bags with cash – so perhaps he can muster a few of the old crowd to stage a raid on the Euro zone printing press, and solve all our problems without an extra cent in income tax.

You’d wonder just how voluntary Arthur Morgan’s retirement was at the end of the day when you hear that his party President has suddenly decided to seek a mandate south of the border.

Like, when Arthur said he wanted to go back working in the family fish business, did that not have a ring of the threat the old Mafia Dons made to targets when they gave them a choice between taking a course of action they didn’t want to or find themselves sleeping with the fishes?

But at least this time Gerry Adams will be pontificating after putting his name on the ballot paper – for far too long he’s been sticking his oar into a soverign nation where he holds no mandate, offering the sort of economic advice than a five-year-old might scribble in crayon on the back of a chewing gum wrapper.

If it’s not him, it’s Mary Lou McDonald, a woman who clearly failed to pay any attention when she was rejected by the people of Dublin in both a national and European poll. The pair of them hold no office and no mandate south of the border but they’re on television more often than three-quarters of our constitutionally elected TDs and

MEPs.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.