The Unlikely Possibility Of Justice

By Charley Brady

There's a certain weary inevitability about it at this point.

Just as we know that at the end of any production of "Hamlet" the stage will be littered with dead bodies; just as we are aware that if we watch "Macbeth" we're not going to see the good lady herself burst into a happy chorus of hills being alive with the sound of music, so too do we know that any episode that should in all sanity be booted out, yet involves our beloved leaders in Fianna Fail doing the right thing by falling on their swords whilst admitting that they are the most arrogant and corrupt political party to ever grace this corrupt little nation - well, it's just going to turn out as we expect it to, is it not?

And if Beverly Cooper Flynn of the appalling Flynn dynasty is involved one can be certain to multiply such suppositions to the nth degree.

I have long ago ceased to care about what these yokes think of me. And yet I do suffer, as any thinking human does when he or she sees careless and ignorant "entitlement" going on around them.

Flynn was expelled from the Fianna Failures after she had sued the State Broadcasters -unsuccessfully - for telling the truth about her shenanigans.

They said that she had assisted people in taking her advice when it came to tax evasion while she worked with the National Irish Bank.

Needless to say, not one of us blinked an eye even when that libel complaint was thrown out.

No one was even surprised in the slightest when she agreed - bloody AGREED to pay only half of what she was ASKED to pay.

Try telling that to someone who is being chased for their TV licence. What was it she was let off with after all by our National Broadcaster after all? Oh yeah, think it was just over a million euro. Ah well, easy come easy go.

Well, why would you pay it back, Bev? We now know that FF is a byword for corruption. So what's the point?

This person comes from a family that think their middle name is "entitlement". After all, her creepy father (also an FF-er and who also has no sense of shame, morals or ethics is the same gombeen who went on national television to boast and yet paradoxically whinge about how hard it is to keep three houses.

Then we have ex-leader Ahern whose last act before he was dismissed for his own shady dealings was to reinstate to Government the same Cooper Flynn.

You really couldn't make this up, could you? It's like Chicago in the 30s.

So now, despite the fact that she was put back into FF over a year ago, she is still able to claim 41,000 euros a year as an Independent in addition to her FF wages.

And of course what does our cowardly and spineless leader of the Party do? Well, he promises that he'll have a chat with her about it in a "week or so".

What does she do? She tells him that she is "entitled to it"; he whinges and moans but goes back into his box.

Memo to Brian Cowen: she has more brains than you. Also, she doesn't care that what she is doing is morally wrong.

She has the legal right, you clown. No wonder she's not scared by you.

Moving away from Cooper Flynn, who at the most is a greedy hard-necked woman, way too full of her own importance but is playing the system for all that she can get, let's move onto genuine monsters.

I can't for the life of me remember who said "Every man's life diminishes me". Was it John Dunne? But even as a teenager I thought it was the most stupid statement that I had ever come across.

Of course there are people that you want to be removed from the face of the earth.

In 1974 two creatures came to Ireland from England. They were called Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw. They already had a history in England of sex offences but their idea when arriving on these shores was to drive around and rape one woman a week.

Common decency will not allow me to go into the details of what they did, but they were eventually caught in Galway.

Evans is now in a coma but I hope that he comes out of it in order to let him suffer the protracted and terrible death that he gave those poor Irish women that himself and his partner decided should suffer.

For the sin of being too good-looking.

As always, these are my views and not that of this newspaper.

There are times when I wish that I had forgiveness in me, but I don't. So be it.

To do what these creatures - I refuse to call them human - did, is beyond belief and certainly beyond my understanding.

So yes, I hope that Evans comes out from his coma and dies the same miserable and extended death that he put those women through.

Does that make me sound harsh? Reading over it I wonder what you think of me, which is why I'm giving my email address for the first time.

Truth is, I'm a Joe Soap who just feels that we got too soft over the years. Hell, I'm soft too. I'm a middle-aged man who can't find the words in him to express my disgust at what is happening to this world. We have everything we need now to create something beautiful and what do we do?

We go down the same old road, fighting wars on every front and looking for more all of the time? For what?

In the last years I've been in so many countries where hate is rife and I always come out thinking the same thing: Why?

Why does it have to be like this?

Why can't we just live together in peace? And before you say anything, you guys at the back of the audience, I'm not some rapidly ageing peacenik. I'm just putting something to you that simply says, "let's try to live together".

Jeez, it can't be that hard.

Here we are in the 21st Century and we still can't be civilized to each other.

Which brings me to the last thing that I want to say.

Considering the awfulness that has been written by my fellow journalists in the last few days, would you ever give John Travolta a break and stop harping on about his religious beliefs?

The man is burying his beloved son this week. Leave him to it. Whether you disagree with his religion or not that's his and his families business.

This must be just an appalling time for him - I can't even imagine - so leave it. Please.

Hope to see you next week.

Same bat-time! Same bat-channel!

And this just in! The Bev has agreed to hand back her unearned 41,000 a year.

Great. More loot to be diverted into the Fianna Fail coffers.

And you honestly think that there's a God? If there is then he definitely has a great sense of humour!

So how come I'm not laughing?

You can reach Charley at chasbrady7@eircom.net