Licking the Same Saucer As the Celtic Tiger Means a Kitty-Litter Bill Forever [Eire Region]

Daily MailJuly 20, 2009

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BACK in the days when I entertained for a living, I used to open my act with this song, to the tune of McNamara's Band.

Sigmund Freud had haemorrhoids, Nietzsche had TB; Poor old Zen caught flu again, And Aquinas diarrhoea; Jean-Paul Sartre has a hole in the heart, Russell caught the clap; Jung, he had a punctured lung, And that's the end of that... I was reminded of my song when I read a quote that Michael D Higgins, poet and scholar, used in his address to the Tom Johnson Summer School, in Sligo.

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Licking the Same Saucer As the Celtic Tiger Means a Kitty-Litter Bill Forever [Eire Region]

(Tom Who? Tom Johnson. Leader of the Labour Party in 1927. Moved to the Seanad and served there for years - you can only imagine the craic they must have at his summer school every year.)

'We are co...

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