COUNCILLORS, it’s time to come out of the shade and embrace the light.
It was only with the sun splitting the rocks outside during the monthly meeting of Limerick City and County Council in Dooradoyle last week that it dawned on me. There was Mayor John Moran all bronzed and sun-kissed up at the top table while all around him were a traditional Irish shade of light pink.
I thought at first there might have been a sudden outbreak of myxomatosis in the chamber, and the services of a veterinarian might be needed to administer vivifying shots. It was like something out of Watership Down.
Cllr Ger Ward (FF) was foaming at the mouth at one point as he almost took a large chunk out of Social Democrats’ Shane Hickey-O’Mara.
Meanwhile, Fine Gael’s Peter Doyle was even spotted drooling all over a flock of American CEOs out yonder.
The sun really doesn’t agree with them at all.
Some of these mad dogs were all yap throughout their monthly pow-wow over the suggestion of cutting taxes and upsetting the powers that be Stateside by boycotting trade in services with illegal Israeli settlements.
But, of course, every cloud does have a silver lining, and some normally irate pooches were full of cheer and wagging their tails in agreement with everything the Mayor had to say.
Mayor Moran didn’t know what to do with so much puppy love on display from Cllr Kieran O’Hanlon. It made everyone in the local authority kennels feel a little awkward to witness such flaunting. Down, Kieran!
We have seen enough rain and misery in LCCC over the last two years to last a lifetime, but for some of these puppies, this would appear to be their happy place. With their pink complexions, I got the sense that being in the dark is where these FF and FG critters are most comfortable. Relics from another time, some of them, when darkness ruled and the pack mentality was God.
It would appear our Mayor bathes in sunshine and higher aspirations, aspirations that the people of Limerick long to revel in – with the exception of a beach on O’Connell Avenue, of course.
And look, it is in the darkness we find the light, but boy does it make our councillors blush.
– Local Democracy Reporting Scheme