The Irish Budget, Belderrig and Gamu

Hi! Folks. Sorry for my absence during the summer. A little illness but a short break in beautiful Mayo helped with that. I stayed near the centre of that Shell to sea dispute. Belderrig and Belmullet. Friendliest place on earth. Belderrig Bay Hotel and the surrounding areas. Mind the sheep! It's an open pedestrian area for our woolly friends. Before I go on to the Budget I just want to comment on Gamu being ejected from the X Factor. Why is it that every year a potential winning contestant is deprived of the right to go before the public vote? Even though Gamu is not presently in the contest she is still the bookies favourite to win it! The bookies are rarely wrong. That's why they never go broke. But at least all this controversy has highlighted the unjust system of deporting people from the UK and Ireland. Gamu was brought into the UK as a child. Her mum may technically be illegally resident but Gamu is more Scottish than African. It is cruel and inhuman to deport her back to Zimbabwe.

Now to the Irish Budget. This will be a long haul piece so I'll start off a new post. I intend to publish a budget myself and of course it will be in speech form and therefore will contain commentary on subjects surrounding the present economic crisis in Ireland on the international scene.