What a day we had in Dublin!
You were SUCH an embarrassment!
Hardly! It was a PR success for us!
I should never have agreed to go to the Dáil with you on your daft ‘Budget Day Exodus’!!
Nah, it was essential that we went up for Budget Day… if we’re running in the General Election, we simply have to network with those guys!
Maybe so! But you were SO embarrassing!
(They’d travelled up by train. Boyo 1 acquired a suit in John Corcoran’s, while Boyo 2 acquired one in Eddie Donnellan’s. Boyo 1 had his laptop. Main file read: ‘Budget bullet points… and policy ideas’. Boyo 2 had his laptop. Main file read: ‘List of expenses incurred today that we can reclaim from Editor…’)
Flashback to Tuesday…
So…
SO! You were like Mr Bean!
I was trying to get to the actual Dáil Chamber…
That’s when you got stuck in the lift with Danny Healy-Rae?
Yes! AND Mattie McGrath! For HALF AN HOUR!
Did you at least discuss the Budget leaks?
I didn’t get a word in! They were lovely, but they never stopped talking!
Any political secrets revealed?
No, but Danny has invited us down to his pub in Kerry!
Well that’s progress!
(After the lift drama, they had met up in Buswells, where they had a couple of pre-Budget pints…)
Then…
THEN… your behaviour in the Chamber when Ministers Donohoe and Chambers were delivering their Budget…
I was a bit hyper because we’d blagged our way into the gallery. Plus I had those couple of pints. All I did was shout down to my new pals – Danny and Mattie – there was no need for the usher to be so… responsive!
You were hanging over the rails, advising them on what to say, just as Jack Chambers was in full flow! Even Mattie looked embarrassed!
It was a bit awkward. Then when there was a break in proceedings, I met a chap in the canteen. He says ‘Was there a bit of disorder in the gallery?’ I said ‘Yeah, the problem with this place is there’s no discipline!’ But it was the CEANN COMHAIRLE I was speaking to!
Oh dear!
At least we met lots of politicians… and had a few more pints in the Dáil bar afterwards…
I thought I saw Eamonn Ryan giving you a bit of a look at one stage…
Oh he asked how we travelled up. I said ‘by train’. Then I asked him does he still cycle to work. He said yes…
Okay… but why was he frowning?
That might have been because I asked (real loud) if he has anywhere nice to park his bike while at work!
