Irish (un)parliamentary language

My festive duties have been heavy this week. Stewing away in fragrant wine mulled vats, building and then demolishing towers of mince pies, dressing up like a Christmas tree. These are just a few of the cheerful chores besetting the grandiloquent at this time of year. To keep you amused while I continue to deck the halls with boughs of this and that and knot a wreath above my door – I simply have to link to this hilarious outburst by Paul Gogarty, the Irish Green Party parliamentarian during a recent budget debate in the Dáil Éireann. Quite how a similar choice of vocabulary would go down in wur ain Holyrood, never mind the taut-sphinctered confines of Westminster, is difficult to imagine. Still, brevity is the soul of wit, eh?