Friday, January 21, 2005

Ireland's offshore Republicans

Those dinosaurs in the IRA, stuck in the old ways of personal enrichment like robbing banks. Don't they know that the way forward for self-styled republicans has long since been mastered by Fianna Fail, and involves shady property deals registered in the name of companies based in places that no-one has heard of? It worked for Ray Burke and Liam Lawlor, so why shouldn't their candidate in the forthcoming by-election in Meath ("The Asphalt County'') get some of the action? As someone might have said (we're thinking of the chief bad guy in Die Hard 2), robbery is simply a question of dates.

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