Subtitle: Frank McNally is a Genius
This is too good to just post a link to on FB or Twitter or even that Tumblr I started with such earnest hopes for the unleashing of my strangely bounded creativity. In a column worthy of the Irish Times’ old contributor, Myles na Gopaleen, Frank McNally lists the History of Ireland in 100 Excuses.
It’s almost impossible to cherry-pick because half of the fun is the cumulative effect, and the other half is they’re so damn funny. Still and all:
1. Original sin.
3. The 800 years of oppression.
9. It was taught badly in schools.
10. The Modh CoinnÃollach.
25. We only did it for the crack.
72. I must have had a bad pint.
80. The money was only resting in my account.
86. The banks were throwing money at us.
90. The Welsh just seemed to want it a bit more than we did.
As they say, words to live by. My sister Eleanor suggests we use it as the rough draft of our next report to the Troika.