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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).

 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...

 Ireland and Germany You,my Kerry Blue friends,are very much the lesser partner in this arrangement,as you should know from receiving only 1100-1200 rifles on a tiny fishing smack adapted by a British "adventurer" in the Howth gun-running episode (read The Green Book). The Germans and Austrians munificence stretched to 12 000 rifles for '"the Army" of Carson and the "political soldiers of Ulster".  The American dimension. The US and Germany  The BND,doctors and CIA run Germany in association with the German Business Federation. One employee of that gang of four Great Powers, Cyril Kennedy of the CIA/Hyannis Port outfit monitors arms shipments to neutral and non-aligned countries from bankrupt, infertile Germany. .... Those 'stupid' Germans?  I ridiculed their womenfolk as "fitted with contraceptive devices to control [their] fertility"  in July-August 1988 (Der Spielplan,l ocated at 14 Fortified Terrace,Upper Rathmines, Dublin 6). ......