Responsible reporting?

R.T.E.

I was listening to ‘Morning Ireland’ on Radio One on my way to work this morning.

I heard Pascal Sheehy, R.T.E.’s Southern Reporter, talking about the terrible burning of a 13 year old boy in Cork.

The boy and his friends had been inhaling petrol vapours from plastic bottles.

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It’s all shit!

Sun Smiley!

Amazing how many different expressions can be made up using the word shit!

Here goes:

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Educational apartheid in Irish schools - I don’t blame them one little bit!

School for all!

An audit by the teachers’ friend, Mary Hanafin, has found that a lot of secondary schools are using selective/restrictive policies to exclude special needs, immigrant children and Traveller children.

Provision for special needs pupils, immigrant children and Traveller children is largely left to vocational and community schools.

Other schools are opting out.

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Poor Bertie (NOT)!

Bertie - The Glasshouse Man!

Bertie will lose out on his Taoiseach’s salary increase of €38,178 when he leaves office next month.

Poor old Bertie will see his annual salary drop by €85,000.

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