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Thursday, 22 May 2008
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Murder most fowl

Dustin the turkey has shown us for what we really are, fur coat and no knickers. It’s not the Bird who should be blamed for the embarrassing performance, treatment and booing at Eurovision, it’s those that sent him and I don’t mean the Irish voters for they’d vote for him just for the hell of it.

How out of touch are RTÉ that they thought that anyone in the rest of Europe would take a puppet in a shopping trolley as a serious entry? Not to mention the backing singers bate into their dresses. It was horrid. A real show of the emperor’s new clothes, nobody got the joke.

Me included. It showed that those that sent him are totally out of touch with the rest of the country, or maybe we Irish have gone so far up our own behinds we’ve started to believe our own hype. Maybe we feel that we are superior to the rest of em?

I for one would prefer a Europe that has some sense of old fashioned tradition and musical values, not this hazy, tacky, punch drunk approach we seem to take to everything these days. No class, that’s it, no sense of style.



X marks the spot

One in four Irish adults have problems reading and writing, for some it’s an impossibility even signing their names. I heard the story of a stunning 21-year-old girl having to make an X for her name recently while signing an official document. How could it be that so many people could slip through the net in the past twenty years? Keith called me on air to say he only recently learned to read and write and he’s in his forties. I asked him how he got through exams; he said he got E, F, and Gs. All the time. His mother asked him what they stood for and he used to bluff her with, E is for excellent, F is for fabulous, G is for Good.  It’s got to upsetting to rear children and not be able to help them with homework, read them a night time story, or give them a note for school. Imagine not being able to read a text message?....... that’s 25 per cent of the population. RTÉ are running a TV show on Monday nights called Written Off 7.30. If you know someone who needs help get them to call 1800 404 141.


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