A kitchen utensil used to chastise Irish children with pre 1990s. Not quite as bad what the catholic church did to children, but an extension of the acceptable level of abuse inflicted on children in those days.
George Orwell described our Governments attitude to the people in his political satire 'Animal Farm' best when he wrote: "All Animals are equal, but some animals more equal than others." This is exactly what's going on today in modern Ireland i.e. the many are being made to pay to line the pockets of the few.
