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‘New energy’ was a bust – our Government’s headless-chickening mirrors a world on fire & their goose is already cooked
THE Duracell Bunny is about to keel over. His batteries are on the blink.
The “New Energy” promised by former Taoiseach, the young pup Simon Harris, turned out to be nothing more than a blast of political hot air to regain power.
Far from hitting the ground running, the new Government with Harris as No2, has been headless-chickening it, bobbing along in a thick soup of mediocrity, yapping on endlessly about what they’ll do as all around them the world burns.
Away from our shores, Ukraine, Israel, Iran, Palestine and the jaw-dropping s**tshow that is unfolding in the United States is enough to get you to build a nuclear bunker or jump off a cliff.
Now, I’m not blaming Simon and the rest of the Dail ditherers for any of those catastrophes.
That would be a bit mad and I’m not quite Looney Tunes yet. Give it time.
The impending end of civilisation should keep you awake at night.
If you can somehow manage to sleep soundly despite all the horror, drop me a line and reveal your secret.
I’d love to know how your nerves aren’t frayed, how you’re not one step from the ward for the very, very nervous.
Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, the Ayatollah, that crazed tubby lad in North Korea . . .
I wish they’d all just exit stage left with their wars and their egos. Or self-combust.
Didn’t we endure enough suffering during three interminable years of the pandemic? Sure we did.
So, we certainly don’t need the added torment of a world in daily flames, where hate, death and despair have become the common currencies of a planet intent on blowing itself up.
But it’s what we have. So suck it up as best you can.
Throwing your TV out the window might be a good start on the road to recovering your sanity.
You may also want to douse your mobile phone in a flammable liquid and set it ablaze (that thing you look at for hours from one end of the day to the other contains all the poison that has turned many of us into angry, intolerant idiots).
Burn it, smash it, dump it in a toilet, whatever, get rid of it.
RARE HAPPINESS
Nowadays, happiness only exists in the warm embrace of those closest to you, perhaps, or in a few silent moments you steal for yourself, or in the joy of sport, the hum of nature at peace with itself.
Hope though is a hard commodity to find. Like ste behind a rocking horse, as a dear old friend used to say in moments of supreme clarity.
There’s precious little hope to be found away from these shores, except maybe on a desert island.
Even there, the hand of Trump hovers like a dark shadow, a Hooded Claw.
At home too, hope is like a dried-up well, or a rain-drenched summer’s day when all you want to do is lie in the sun (fat chance).
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Hope is a hole in your shoe, especially if you’re young.
Those poor sods must be tearing their hair out at the gomdaw antics of those handed the power to fix their broken lives.
A failed generation under the omnipresent FF/FG.
And what do we get from the banjaxed Duracell Bunny Harris?
Not hope, no, just more doom and gloom. It’s all he has to offer.
What has he and his Government done in the last six months apart from talk and talk and talk.
They’re “engaging key stakeholders” now and have set up an “accelerating infrastructure taskforce” to deliver deliverables.
Plenty of blah, blah, blah and damn all do, do, do.
EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
They had another talking shop on Monday, the National Economic Dialogue (it’s beyond a joke now lads) at which Harris & Co warned of economic disaster if Trump unleashes 50 per cent tariffs on pharmaceuticals.
“There are dark clouds on the horizon,” said Harris, his ever-greying face mirroring the sombre mood that has descended.
Talk about stating the bleedin’ obvious, though. Sherlock and that thing we do twice a day (if we’re lucky) come to mind.
The lads and lassies in Leinster House know their goose is already cooked and they’re barely seven months into their Government term.
Success or failure depends entirely on Trump now.
If tariffs arrive, then the game is up and the Government knows it.
The days of having our coffers stuffed with many billions in US multinational cash is about to abruptly end.
IRISH EXPORTS SOARED
In the first three months of this year, Irish exports to the US soared by an astounding €34.3billion (up 64 per cent on the same time last year) to an astronomical €88.4billion.
Most of that was pharma giants getting their product to the States before Trump’s tariffs kick in. Clever sods.
We may have bumper receipts now from US multinationals, but they will fall off a cliff when Trump’s tariff axe swings.
If only successive governments HADN’T put all the eggs in the one multinational basket. But they did.
The success of the Irish economy for the past 30 years has been a mirage.
The Emperor has no clothes, no wonder the Duracell Bunny has lost his lustre.
PUTIN'S LIES ON WAR CRIMES
RUSSIA repeatedly claims it isn’t targeting civilians in Ukraine.
It’s a nauseating lie, of course, but Putin and his army of psychopaths revel in deception and double-speak.
Since Ukraine wiped out much of Russia’s fleet of bombers in a daring attack last month, Putin has unleashed record-breaking volleys of missiles and drones at Ukrainian cities, indiscriminately bombing apartment blocks, shopping centres and schools.
One such blatant attack by an Iranian drone was captured live on Ukrainian TV as it slammed into the side of a high-rise block of flats.
It was a shuddering sight.
Anyone inside would have died on impact. Putin doesn’t care.
His goal is to drag the war out as long as he can and exhaust the civilian population with nightly terror raids, like the one pictured here.
Trump, who has said he “likes” Putin, obviously hasn’t the balls to stand up to the Russian tyrant, so he keeps on killing with abandon.
LISTEN TO MACRON, FELLAS
HE may have married his teacher, a woman 22 years his senior, but when French President Emmanuel Macron – a philosopher by profession (he wrote a master’s thesis on the greatest political mind ever, Machiavelli) – speaks on world affairs, we really should take heed.
As US President Donald Trump prepared to join Israel in its war against Iran earlier this week, not just to disable its capacity to build a nuclear weapon, but to seemingly end the reign of the Ayatollahs, Macron sent up a flare of warning to the world.
He immediately denounced the idea of using force to achieve regime change in Tehran, reminding Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, both below, in comments with reporters in Canada, where he was attending a Group of Seven summit: “Does anyone think that what was done in Iraq in 2003 was a good idea?
“Does anyone think that what was done in Libya the previous decade was a good idea? No.”
For those with short memories, the invasion of Iraq by the US and its allies caused more than 210,000 deaths in a brutal sectarian civil war that followed.
It also fuelled the rise of Isis across the Middle East.
The toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya also led to a brutal civil war in the north African country, one that divided the country in two and still bubbles along to this day.
While conceding the Israeli point that it has a right to defend itself and that Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism around the world – Hezbollah and Hamas are the creations of the mullahs remember – cannot obtain a nuclear bomb, Macron warned that trying to topple the death cult in Tehran risked spreading chaos.
He said: “I think the biggest mistake today is to use military means to bring about regime change in Iran because that would mean chaos.”
Trump and Netanyahu aren’t listening though.
Netanyahu bluntly said that killing Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme leader, “is not going to escalate the conflict, it’s going to end the conflict”.
Trump added: “We know exactly where he is. We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least for now.”
Khamenei appeared on TV from his bunker, vowing no surrender.
Long weeks lie ahead of us.
KIRBY A REAL JOY
DUNNO if you’re into cycling – the sport, not the dangerous exercise of getting from A to B on Irish roads – but I was delighted to hear the chuckling tones of cycling commentating legend Carlton Kirby on TNT Sports this week as he took viewers on a linguistic waltz during the Tour of Switzerland.
Carlton is a fellow Sheffield Wednesday sufferer, so he’s a kindred spirit. I could listen to him for days on end.
Cadence, wit and repartee are his middle names.
Among the gems he revealed about Switzerland is the fact each town, village or hamlet employs a caretaker whose job is to keep the public realm in tip-top shape.
Grass verges are never overgrown, graffiti never up for long and fag butts as alien as ketchup on a fondue.
FARCICAL CLUB CUP
CLUB World Cup anyone? Nah, you’re alright.
Fifa’s inaugural 32-team rival to Uefa’s Champions League is on in America at the minute, but it’s NOT on the box anywhere.
An online platform called DAZN is the only place you can watch it, if you are bothered to jump through hoops backwards trying to sign up to their free stream.
DAZN reportedly paid $1BILLION for the privilege of being the exclusive broadcasters.
Sky Sports, TNT and Premier Sports must be laughing up their sleeves.
The competition, which kicked off last weekend, soon descended into farce after Bayern Munich beat a bunch of amateurs from Auckland 10-0.
Who wants to watch that? Not even the most die-hard sports fans, and I count myself among their number, would get excited by a Club World Cup.
Reports from America revealed that Fifa had slashed ticket prices for some games, so worried were they at the prospect of empty stadiums.
The Club World Cup will limp to a conclusion over the next few weeks out of the spotlight.
Feck all people will tune in.
And Fifa will quietly drop it when they realise it’s a dead duck.
HIQA REPORTS ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE
HIQA must have read my column last week, because this week they confirmed they have passed reports on alleged abuses at two Emeis Ireland-run nursing homes in Dublin and Portlaoise to Gardai.
Nothing less will do.
Hiqa also reported some 198 allegations of abuse at one of them, yet they went on to say that it “didn’t necessarily mean a failure at compliance”.
Talk about utter hogwash. Hiqa is as useful as a monkey without a tail.
Florian Wirtz lands in UK for Liverpool medical with Bayer Leverkusen star set to make record £116m transfer today
BAYER LEVERKUSEN star Florian Wirtz has landed in the UK ahead of his record-breaking move to Liverpool.
The Reds are set to complete a staggering £116million swoop, which will see Wirtz, 22, becoming the most expensive signing in Premier League history.
According to The Mail, the playmaker flew from Cologne and landed at Manchester Airport on a private jet at 4.42pm on Thursday.
According to Sky Sports Germany, the first part of the Germany international’s medical was scheduled to take place yesterday.
The same source suggested Wirtz’s move to Liverpool may be officially confirmed today.
The German was joined by his parents Hans and Karin, who are set for a bumper payday after having played a role in negotiating their son’s five-year contract.
They are expected to receive a hefty commission worth around £8.6m after directly negotiating his move to Anfield without the use of an agency.
The Merseysiders completed the deal after beating the likes of Bayern Munich and Premier League foes Manchester City.
And now the attacking midfielder is set to command astronomical wages worth a whopping £245,000 per week – totalling an annual £12,700,000.
That ranks him only behind Liverpool’s joint-top earners Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk, who are on £400,000 per week each.
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Wirtz will soon be reuniting with former Leverkusen team-mate Jeremie Frimpong.
Frimpong moved to Liverpool from the German giants earlier in the summer following a £29.5m deal.
The full-back and Wirtz played a major part in Leverkusen‘s historic undefeated Bundesliga triumph under new Real Madrid manager Xabi Alonso last year.
Wirtz is set to beat the transfer record held by former Liverpool target Moises Caicedo, who joined Chelsea from Brighton in 2023 following a £115m deal.
Kylie Padilla On Regret She Felt After Leaving Encantadia In 2017
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Who will Kaizer Chiefs face in the Netherlands?
Kaizer Chiefs are gearing up for their pre-season tour to the Netherlands, and they will play a high-profile friendly on 11 July.
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