Be Careful What You Wish For A cautionary tale...
Moral chaos: Ireland lays in ruins. Athiests crucifying priests on the streets, drug lords in their Head Shops forcing pills down the throats of 4 year olds, knife crime being committed with samurai swords every 5 minutes... the public, panic stricken, run for their lives. The national tranquiliser that is Joe Duffy's Live Line can barely cope with the volume of calls. Swift measures are made to readdress the balance. Swift, ill conceived measures...
An old television sits in the corner of a darkened room. Suddenly it flickers to life. An image of a man appears and a voice begins to speak...
"We now go live to Dail Eireann, where Minister Ahern is ready to speak with us..... Minister? Can you hear us Minis.... oh dear! Ladies and Gentlemen what tragedy has happened upon Mr. Ahern. It appears someone has cut his head off, and it seems to have been done by one of the very types of swords the Minister outlawed last year to prevent "knife crime"..... wait, wait, I'm getting more news in my arse piece. Extraordinary! Gardai have confirmed that no prosicution will be brought against the perpretraitor of this beheading... because... it's coming through now... because this person is a Muslim and was acting out on a religious Fatwa that was placed on the life of the Minister, and since it was part of his religion to behead the Mr. Ahern, he is protected by the Laws of Blasphemy introduced by the very same Minister... sorry, that should be ex Minister now I guess. Well in this news casters opinion... if that ain't a big old slice of fucking irony I don't know what is. Oh well, I'm off home! And now the weather with Jean Bryne...."
This blog post was part of a series of special posts for Halloween 2010.
This post is a work of fiction. References to any truths are purely incidental.
[ Dermot Ahern ] [ Original Full Colour ]
These posts are highly enjoyable.
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