Sinn a Willie

Willie O’ Dea has defended the allegations that he accused a Sinn Fein election candidate of owning a brothel by saying that the candidate in question accused him of using incorrectly headed notepaper in his constituency office and that he was simply ”responding in kind”.

Followers of Willie’s junior hurling career will be familiar with this tendency and recall an incident in a championship match in the late sixties when Willie was on the receiving end of a robust shoulder from a Bruff player. He “responded in kind” by having a load of seasoned turkey manure tipped in the player’s driveway and poisoning his pet pony, Bullseye.

The scale of Willie’s achievement here surely needs to be acknowledged in that he is the first person in history to participate in a stationery disagreement during which the moral high ground was ceded to Sinn Fein. No stationery related skirmish on record has resulted in a surge in credibility for Grizzly and the lads. Until now. Willie's pivotal contribution to this milestone, this watershed moment in Irish politics is duly noted.

Quite an accomplishment. Possibly the only one of any note. Apart from the 'tache obviously. The 'tache transcends party politics. No one of sound mind would question the 'tache. And rightly so.