Also fits:
“I’ve been completely honest about Libertas’ sources of funding”
“Rivada has nothing to do with the arms industry”

Dempsey urges talks in rail dispute

Dublin City Council is considering the merits of imposing a “tourist tax” of €1 per night on beds in hotels, hostels and B&Bs in the city in order to raise additional revenue.

Ignoring the fact that this is the taxation equivalent of licking your plate clean after a steak dinner, there are many questions that need to be answered if this proposal is given the attention it really doesn’t deserve.

For example, if a Dubliner stays in a Dublin hotel will they be exempt from the tax or will they be classed as tourists in their own city? What if they come from the Fingal County Council catchment?

But the tourist tax isn’t the only thing on the agenda. Other revenue-generating ideas being discussed by the Council at the moment include the imposition of a carbon dioxide levy, the introduction of a fee for those wishing to take pictures of public monuments and the rolling out of an ‘Ironic Green Hat’ tax.*

* Not really

Pope discusses child sex abuse by Catholic Priests at National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, nose grows, cricket appears on shoulder.

Merkel in Ireland today to explain Lisbon Turdy.