IT has all kicked off down in City Hall, according to former Limerick Leader and Sunday Independent editor Alan English, in his warts and all expose for The Currency, bound to titillate anyone living out beyond Birdhill!
If you haven’t been paying attention, things have gone buns over teat down in Merchant’s Quay since directly-elected Mayor John Moran first donned the ceremonial robes of his supreme office.
English, in the meantime, taken to writing biblical reports on the stories that float his ark. Last week it was Mayor Moran that got the War and Peace treatment.
And last Tuesday morning, just as the straight-talking Limerick journo was figuring out what to wear for his hot date with Miriam O’Callaghan on Prime Time, the nation was being tickled pink over its cornflakes with talk of fisticuffs and heartbreak.
Like the next man, especially if it happens to be Russ Abbot, I do love a party with an atmosphere a little bit way, a little bit woo, and Limerick Council has certainly had it all since Lord Moran took to the throne.
According to everybody’s favourite rugby book author, things took an Olivia Newtown John turn for the worse down in City Hall after the Mayor came over all flap jaw on Limerick’s number one radio station before Christmas. How did we miss that one?
It was alleged that when Mayor Moran returned to the Merchant’s Quay Death Star, things got physical between Pat Daly and himself. Now don’t take my word for that, that’s The Currency’s reporting.
Mayor Moran, by all accounts, confessed to English about being “physically manhandled” by Dr Daly during a rather heated exchange back in HQ. An allegation Daly has strongly refuted, in the reporting.
As a wise sage once said, Saturday night’s alright for fighting, but take it outside gentlemen, please – not in front of the administrative staff.
Alan English bravely relived all the horrors on RTÉ’s flagship current affairs programme with gusto, while Mayor Moran downplayed the alleged incident, and was more keen to show a united front between himself and the DG.
The Mayor, apparently, had a change of heart as the TV cameras zoomed in on him. After hanging the Council executive’s dirty knickers out to dry on English’s clothes horse, our first citizen was now more keen to talk about delivering for Limerick.
Thankfully though, with the dire hitting the straits in the Middle East, Limerick Council’s latest shameful episode was spared serious blushes on Prime Time when talk moved onto fuel prices and Iran.
Another week, another mayoral commotion, with everyone getting their tuppence worth!
– Local Democracy Reporting Scheme