Tuesday night’s game between Munster and the All Blacks was just wonderful. From the surreal prequel, with Munster’s four Kiwis performing the haka at their compatriots, to the heart-stopping (and ultimately heart-breaking, even for Leinster people) finish, the evening was one which will live long in the memory.
Some of the gloss went off the whole thing for me yesterday, though, when I read that Brian Cowen had attended the match by using the Government jet to fly down to it. His excuse was that he had to perform the official opening. However, he could have said “sorry, I’m at work that day & won’t be able to get to Limerick on time”, or he could, as many other people at the game probably did, take a half-day off at his own expense. But, if you’ve a jet at your disposal, at no cost to yourself, then there is always Option C.
Harry Enfield
Martin Cullen
He was accompanied on this merry spree by Minister for Handguns, Willie “Dead Eye Dick” O’Dea, Minister for Costly Schoolbooks, Batt “Dead in the Water” O’Keeffe, and Minister for Something-Different-Every-Time-There’s-A-Re-shuffle, Martin “Dead Ringer for Harry Enfield” Cullen.
They watched the game, then flew back to Dublin in the Government jet so that Brian would be back in the Dáil yesterday in time to bluster and bully on at us all again about how bad things are, and how we’re all going to have to tighten our belts.
Oh, and so Martin Cullen would be back in time to tell the GAA that their Players Grant Scheme might not go ahead next year because “I do not have unlimited funds”.
Who advises these people?
Do they have any idea of the notion of leading by example?
ENORMOUS amounts of coverage re how Munsters slaughtered the All Blacks in ‘78, down here. I think alot of people would have been quietly smiling if you had pipped us at the post.
Comment by laughykate — November 20, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
There’s a stage play here called “Alone It Stands” about the 78 game, which turns up every couple of years.
Apparently as it got near the end of Tuesday’s game one of your lot said to the rest of the team “Come on, I don’t want a fucking play written about me”
Comment by Tinman18 — November 20, 2008 @ 10:14 pm
It was a bit of a heartbreaker indeed but fair play to the Kiwis. They needed something special to win the game and along came Smoking Joe to do it. Very few wingers in the world would have scored that try.
Comment by gaiusc — November 28, 2008 @ 12:04 am