Common Sense Is What We Need

I was really worried as I spotted the fog rise and start drifting across the pitches. I thought that we would have to call the final two games off. Fortunately the fog drifted up and down the pitch and eventually went off towards Clonlara. Talking about Clonlara I was very sad to hear of two young lads from the Clonlara area who play for Stonecutters who are off to Australia this week. Senan Nihill and Tommy Lynch played for the past few years with the Cutters and it’s a sign of the times that young lads have to emigrate to earn a living. We wish them the best of luck and sincerely hope that we see them returning to Ireland and the LWL in the near future. During the week we all heard that we are in for a tough budget. Its almost like as if the the Government are taking pleasure out of telling us that they are going to whip us and if we are goods boys they will whip us again and harder for the next four years. In the 80’s we had a programme called Halls Pictorial weekly. They used to send up the Government of the time. They had a character called The Minister for Hardship (it was Minister For Finance Richie Ryan at the time) who used to sit in a room with a candle and finger less gloves. I think Michael Noonan is fast moving towards the title of Minister for Hardship. Income tax is down VAT is down it doesn’t take a genius to understand that we need to encourage people to spend. If we spend in the shops the shops will take on more staff. They in turn will buy more supplies and the suppliers will take on more people. All these extra people at work will pay more income tax and in turn their purchases will mean more VAT. Rocket science No. Common sense Yes. Keep the Faith