Quote Originally Posted by Stewie View Post

...just another example of lazy journalism and shrewd politicians taking advantage of the lazy journos.
Agreed, Ireland has among the poorest news-media on earth...often the 9pm news on RTE 1 is like a collection of press releases from the Garda Press Office and various government departments being read-out, accompanied by stock-footage.

And they want to increase the license fee!?

And our politicians are no better - what a collection of mediocre half-arses! Even the various parties are in a bit of a bind due to the low calibre of person making themselves available for office. In the last local elections the Labour Party seemed to get around this by selecting attractive female candidates and hoping for the best.

Sweet Krishna's Kettle -- what sort of an effing country is this?