Today's papers reviewed (courtesy of newstalk and twitter)

[DCon]

Can we start a campaign with marches and drums and stuff?

we should

you can practice at home too

[Baron von Biffo]

The government is pressing ahead with its jobs initiative...


by putting another 4000 people out of work.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...320064791.html

[Baron von Biffo]

This week's 'Neck like a jockey's apparatus' award goes to the Socialist Party. They're calling on Tricky Mickey to "take his repayment responsibility to Revenue seriously". This at a time when some of their own leading members are mired in expenses controversy.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...320064529.html

[Kev Bar]

The Master Musicians of Jujouka highlighting the Elvis in Islam

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...319895508.html

[Baron von Biffo]

Niall Collins must be remembering that whipping fear of crime into a frenzy did the Bull no harm in days gone by.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/f...in-559135.html

[Baron von Biffo]

The Examiner dismisses medical treatment for prisoners as 'pill popping'.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...ar-200937.html

Bottom of the barrel stuff.

[Baron von Biffo]

Forget the banks, forget the destruction of the health sector, forget the education cuts. Spare a thought instead for the harrowing plight the people of Terenure.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...a-3168790.html

The UN should forget about those milksops in Syria and switch their attention to a real humanitarian crisis.

[Baron von Biffo]

Niall Collins seems determined to take gold as the thickest member of the reshuffled FF front bench.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/s...ns-559419.html

[Baron von Biffo]

The trainee pilots story continues to simmer in the background. How did we get to a situation where the taxpayer must assume responsibility for ensuring that no-one has to suffer any unpleasantness?

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...st-201054.html

[Baron von Biffo]

The Greens are still willing to make, eh, hard decisions.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...x-3171113.html

[Baron von Biffo]

As if it wasn't bad enough having the Bundestag running the economy, now the Yanks are trying to order us to use GM foods.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...320380976.html

[Baron von Biffo]

Adams is concerned about elections to Uterus na Gaeltachta.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...320380703.html

[Baron von Biffo]

Ming had a little hissy fit.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...d-3174232.html

Cue howls of indignation about how 'the establishment' is out to get him.

[Baron von Biffo]

An American gun loon called Larry Pratt (you couldn't make it up) reckons that yesterday's massacre is an argument for relaxing US gun laws.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/den...ns-560100.html

According to Pratt, America is so utterly dysfunctional that one risks death by going out in public unarmed.

"The idea that you tell people they’ve got to go into a public place without a firearm is setting them up for this kind of disaster."

[Baron von Biffo]

Gobsh!te TD Ming Flanagan equates dressing scruffily with being born black or disabled.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...y-3174970.html

Lovely man.