From watching the news and other current-affairs programmes in Ireland over the last week or two, it would appear that the majority of the population are one step away from accusing the Government of not taking control of the weather. Could it be that due to the holidays there was very little real news to report, and so the national media focused instead on the bad weather? That the media, in an attempt to be sensationalist, ran clips of those who blamed the Government for the snow and ice rather than the clips of those who took a philisophical approach to this once-in-twenty-years event? That this further propogated ill-feeling in those watching? Could it be that if the bad weather had hit during the run-up to the Budget we would have heard – and therefore complained – far less about the afore mentioned weather? Just a thought.
Frosty reception to the New Year
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