Oh We Of Little Faith

I see our friends in Fianna Fail have unleashed the latest strand of their manifesto the central pillar of which is a pledge to create fifteen thousand jobs in tourism alone over the next five years.

The document goes on to detail other significant undertakings of which I feel it appropriate to make you aware;

1. The translocation via nanotechnolgy of Connaught, the six counties and Louth to the surface of Venus by 2012.

2. Putting a Ghost Estate on the Moon by 2020.

3. Paving of the Castelbar by-pass using magma piped directly from the Earth's core by 2013.

4. Devising a magnet capable of disrupting the Lunar cycle to create gnarly surf off the West coast thereby consolidating Ireland's position as the global leader in renewable wave energy.

5. The creation of a hundred thousand public service jobs translating the internet into Irish.

And there was I thinking that all this talk of a smart economy was pie in the sky. Sorry lads.