Here's am unfinished symphony from 2 years ago. That Joe Duffy fool, he really is bad at what he does, Pat Kenny may be a clown but at least he can conduct a programme like a professional.

It really is the best example of RTE's cuntacular approach to management. Joe Duffy got his slot by default, not by talent, with his foot firmly in the door by being Gay Byrne's gimp (another professional broadcaster) he was given serious airtime when GB departed. What the fuck is this? A bakery or something? Where if you manage to attend everyday and keep the head down you'll be promoted eventually by sheer necessity.

I used to HATE Derek Davis and once drew a rather silly comic about him in school. My only reason for hating him was that he used to host Live at 3 and I'd have to watch around 20 minutes of it everyday waiting for the cartoons to come on. He takes over from Joe Duffy when he's away and he wipes the floor with him with a sincere and thoughtful approach to the whole thing. Duffy's answer to anything shocking is a 'tut'. That's all he can do, he goes 'tut' and then sighs, is that what we're paying you for you dick? I don't listen to Liveline any more, don't buy papers or listen to the news either these days and feel much better for it. Those 3 little bullet points from RTE on my google homepage do it for me.

The scariest thing though is that Joe Duffy is one of the most powerful men in Ireland. Something gets raised on his programme, he makes some poor woman cry, he tuts, the papers pick up on it and a law is changed. Granted, sometimes for the good but HE has nothing to do with it. One of them little head bobber things could easily sit in for him, Liveline runs itself and if anything HE hampers good debate by needling for corny jokes, tabloid headlines and making people cry.

So I wont be finishing this comic because he doesn't annoy me as much as he used to. Same with that Brian Mc Fadden dope. I don't see him anymore so I abandoned my project on him. Keith Barry, that magician who wears all the make up in the Smart Telecom ads is riding high on the Shit-list.

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Just a quickie as I'm out of here early. This is a magnet. Working from a supplied drawing they sent us an image and either by phone or by email they were asked "to put the words Ireland 2006" on the golf ball.



And there we have it, it came back with absoutely tiny writing on the ball reading: 'Words Ireland 2006'. This is a classic example of the manufacturer following our instructions too well.

You can't blame them as they did what we asked them. They match what they're given. Here's
a few before and afters

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