SO WHILE THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN SLIDING INTO A RECESSION....

Fianna Fail were saying a long goodbye to Bertie..........Mary Harney was getting her hair done in Florida.....Brian Cowen was having a sing song on a stage in Clara.......Dick Roche was building a road over Tara.........Bertie Ahern was making guest appearances at tribunals.......Brian Cowen and Michael Martin were running over to Brussels to apologise for our democratic decision on Lisbon......Brian Cowen was entertaining the crowds at the fleadh cheoil with his rendition of Paddy's Green shamrock shore........the PD's were busy disbanding.......Bertie Ahern went on a farewell tour of Washington, London and Ireland........Noel Dempsey brought in new laws restricting learners drivers from driving......Mary Harney went to the Superbowl........Fianna Fail were busy expanding into the North.......Bertie was busy spending 500euro a week on makeup.....Bertie and co were busy changing the laws to create more jobs for the boys in the form of Junior ministers........52million euro was being spent on electronic voting machines that don't work........Bertie and co decided to give themselves a pay rise, making the Irish taoiseach's job the most paid job in Europe, even more paid than the American president.........Willie o Dea was busy posing with a gun........Jim Mc Daid was busy driving his car drunk down the wrong side of the M50.........