We’re all going on a summer holiday . . .

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley

A bully stole Michael John Crowe’s bucket and spade at the seaside when he was a young lad on holiday.

Or else he was bitten by crabs or stung by a big brown jellyfish.

That can be the only reasonable explanation for his dislike of holidays.

MJ is not a happy camper. All this joviality among the ruling elected members of Galway City Council has put his nose out of joint.

When he was in the power pact, there was no skiving-off City Council meetings’ duty in the month of July.

That was then, this is now. We are where we are, as they say.

The new shower in the mayoral pact, who he maintains stabbed him and Fianna Fáil in the back in a desperate bid for power, are quite fond of holidays.

In all his years in City Hall – over a decade – Mike says he has never seen such a lazy shower of holiday-hungry City Councillors.

Never before, he says, have elected members failed to meet in the month of July.

But that’s what’s going on this year, says Mike. They’re all upping-sticks and hitting the beach; or the South of France or wherever.

MJ’s pleas, taken out of the Tommy Gorman style blackmail of Roy Keane school of interviewing – ‘think about the potholes, what about the potholes?’ – hasn’t worked.

They’re taking holidays and that’s that. We suggest, MJ, if you can’t beat them, join them.

Get over your fear of sea and sand and other summery things beginning with S that you do on holidays, and get yourself down to Ballyloughane Beach.

We’re sure Terry ‘Poll-topper’ O’Flaherty would have a great welcome for you at her beach . . . she’ll even let you use her bucket and spade.

G’wan Michael John, you might even enjoy it.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Sentinel.