SMOKES & DAGGERS

A mischievous mix of political asides with JOHN DRENNAN

LIKE the famous Skibbereen Eagle, our temporary Taoiseach Micheál Martin has, since his elevation, been a little preoccupied by world issues, such as Ukraine.

This might explain the response to fellow Corkman Michael Collins when he raised the concerns of, ‘Bridie Roycroft, postmistress of the ever-popular Ballydehob post office, over the impact of the sorting of post in Ballydehob, Schull, and

Goleen post offices being moved to Skibbereen’. As the embarrassed Taoiseach admitted he did not have ‘the specific details’ to address the concerns of Bridie, above, one disgruntled FF TD snapped, ‘What chance do we have of rising in the polls when a Corkman doesn’t know what’s happening in Ballydehob?’

TOUCHING indeed was the response of one of the Trinity College ‘fellows’ to the saving of College Lawn from developers.

Celebrating Trevor West, who had fought similar battles, they cited a poem dedicated to the late senator. ‘To Trevor West in Heaven’ who ‘though eternal are the hours, prevented Celestial Thrones and Powers, from building Student Mansions on Elysian fields, once gone, they’re gone.’

They do things differently in Trinity.

SMOKES was somewhat startled to see that some politician from Clondalkin called Eoin Ó Broin has joined the Social Democrats. The differences between Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats are increasingly thin but we didn’t think the Sinn Féiner would jump ship to the Social Democrats. Calm was restored when it was revealed there are actually two Eoin Ó Broins, one of whom, above, is an independent councillor.