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 We say to popsters singing of "never-ending love" and similar heart-pangs directed at both jilted lovers and abandoned women, "You're as well raving there as you are in your bed...,"('O Riordain ',Der Spielplan,Il giocco, July-August 1988, Dublin).

 What did the seminarian teachers at Saint Michael's  College hope young people would see in Irish language dramas written by defrocked priests? In the Biblical paradigm of the above title (1978) a former priest tried his hand at some contemporary Bibliology. .. Let us start further down from "Ar n-athair ata ar neamh", with "Ar n-aran laethuil tar duinn inniu" (The Our Father). In the third line which follows,we read (English) "Na lig sinn I gcathu" after the  request for material assistance which stands at the apex of temporal needs. ... As an educated former man of the cloth and possibly knowing of the CIA "double cut-out" system of agent handling,that being Head of Intelligence-Case Officer-Agent Handler-Agent,he might have seen a discernible link between the invocation of providential  assistance with the strings-attached US investment in the Ireland of the 1960's and 1970's. .... His spacing is by way of the normal running Order...

 Living off the South Circular Road in Dublin in 1988-9 led to chronic respiratory problems for all the unfortunate inhabitants of the South Inner City. The air was heavily polluted by smoke from domestic coal-burning. In 1989,Mary Harney took the initiative in banning coal-burning in many areas and saved many lives, probably including mine. In dealing with the low survival rate of cancer,she cut unnecessary hospital beds and basically tricked doctors to do a better job by lowering expenditure. That is why we say pathetic and solipsistic rhetoric about spending more money on health is such a lot of hyper-inflated waffle. Ignore this nonsense, everyone,vote for people who are objective and genuinely progressive and take a businesslike approach. Cancer survival rates doubled from 1:4 to 2:4 because of Ken Baker and Mary Harney not being satisfied with platitudes and rhetoric. 'Health' histrionics? For the birds and the bees.

Economic balance is only partially accommodated by a written agreement between employers, state and trade unions. The state as the largest employer in any country is in no way independent,in blue collar workers opinions. Glasnost? Openness? A law-governed state which publishes its enactments and/or court judgements is in every way in keeping with the demands, major and minor,of transparency in government.  To return to the opening theme... A written wages agreement at national level may assist,in certain circumstances,the narrowing of economic inequality and social 'levelling-up'.  My opposition to consensus politics 1983-2003, what was the sole outcome? Small groups of under-remunerated people and idle hands such as myself and others were leaving ourselves open to 'active police measures'. These are undertaken in pursuit of a bogus,Church-instigated, so-called social consensus and civil peace. The fact is that police forces monitor incipient political protest and bar m...