The Daily Mail are seething with anger this morning over the antics of Transport Minister Noel Dempsey and his flagrant use of the Government’s private jet last month.
‘Jet took Dempsey to dinner’ shouts the headline on the paper’s front page, with a report detailing how, after using the private jet to take him from Dublin to Derry, Dempsey then used the private jet to fly to London to attend a meeting at the Irish Embassy and stayed at a glitzy hotel in London’s Kensington district in a room that costs over €250 a night.
As well as using the jet, which costs €7,980 an hour, Dempsey also employed his chauffeur to drive from Dublin to Derry to meet him at the airport and drive him to Glenties in Donegal, where he made a speech on public accountability at the MacGill school. His chauffeur then drove Dempsey back to Derry airport where the minster flew on to London.
While Dempsey’s department insisted there was no other way he could have got to London in time for a vital meeting, Dempsey’s fellow TD’s and the tax-paying public are up in arms about the latest example of government misuse of taxpayer’s money.
On a lighter note, Irish supergroup U2 confounded their diva status by treating hungry fans to pizza during rehearsals for the band’s show at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin last night, according to this morning’s Irish Sun.
Never ones to turn down the opportunity of a good pun, the Sun went to town on the generous acts of Bono and company, who delivered multiple boxes of the good stuff to their fans in person and signed autographs and posed for pictures with their waiting fans.
‘Rattle and Yum’ goes the headline of the piece on page nine, which details how the band gave Italian supporters a PIZZA the action ahead of the gig. Apparently, they wanted to say a big GRAZIE to those who had queued for days – and to prevent their famished fan BASE from getting CRUSTY. The band also proved their not PASTA it by playing a two-hour gig for their adoring Italian public.
Pun-tastic I think you’ll agree.
