What Goes Round..........

Last weekend in the Sunday Independent Niamh Horan wrote a piece detailing the financial troubles of one Adele King, aka national treasure and beloved entertainer Twink.

In the article Horan carried a quote from a member of what she described as Twink’s “inner circle” to bear out the story. Essentially Twink has a fairly decent house in Knocklyon and she is having trouble meeting the mortgage payments. I know a plumber who has a fairly decent house in Rathgar and he is having trouble meeting the mortgage payments. I know a supermarket manager who has a fairly decent house in Ballinteer and he is having trouble meeting the mortgage payments. This must mean that I am a member of these people’s “inner circle”. Seemingly not knowing that one even exists should be no impediment to entering an individual's "inner circle". I did not know this.

When you are having trouble paying your household bills, you must forsake your right to have an “inner circle”. This is one of the rules that you must accept when you acquire your “inner circle” in the first place. The “inner circle” disappears when the car is towed from the driveway by the finance company.

Michael O’Leary, Michael Smurfit, Tony O’Reilly, John Magnier, Dermot Desmond, Denis O’Brien and Sean Quinn have “inner circles”.

Twink, like a van driver or a quantity surveyor, has friends.