Can the Irish taxpayer begrudge a £1 donation to UNICEF?
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Wednesday October 07, 2009 11:06
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The most mendacious and shameful of any of the Cinn Comhairlí to supposedly serve the Irish state is about to pass into history celebrated by Brian Cowen as someone who served Ireland well. Today's Irish Independent reveals that whilst celebrating Robbie Burns night in Scotland last January, John O'Donoghue claimed 1 sterling pound in expenses for a donation he had made through the goodness of his heart to UNICEF. As we most probably remember the average exchange rate for one sterling pound to one euro in January 2009 was a whopping 1.0768.You could probably have rounded those three farthings to a penny and lodged them in an AIB account with nobody asking questions.
From "On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child" subtitled "Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress" writte in 1790 by Robbie Burns :-
Sweet flow'ret, pledge o' meikle love,
And ward o' mony a prayer,
What heart o' stane wad thou na move,
Sae helpless, sweet, and fair?
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At end the claim made by O Donoghue is not as wicked as we might at first think. He passed unto the taxpayer the duty onorous as it was to bear the cost of that donation. We ought thank him and honour his career and ensure that in future he never goes without loo roll.