Gerry, Galway is out west not sunny south east

Gerry Adams raised the plight of a “Galway man” in Dáil Éireann recently.

The Sinn Féin leader claimed the 102-years old deaf and blind man was set to lose his home help because his medical card was to be cruelly taken away by the Health Service Executive.

What a nasty shower those HSE people are, we thought, and set about investigating further to highlight the poor Galway pensioner’s plight.

So we contacted Gerry’s man in Galway, Connemara-based Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh. Trevor, strangely enough, hadn’t heard of Jimmy the 102-years-old Galway man who was about to lose his medical card, but he’d investigate and get back to us.

If you’re to believe him, and let’s face it, Gerry has told a few ‘porkie pies’ in his day, it turns out Jimmy the pensioner was from Waterford not Galway and Gerry had just mixed up his counties.

We were assured Jimmy most certainly did exist and wasn’t a figment of Gerry’s imagination, dreamt up to lash the HSE.

During the last General Election, Gerry’s knowledge of economics south of the border was badly exposed.

Now it appears his knowledge of geography south of the border is as sharp as his economics!

Frank minus ‘E’ adds a ‘G’

Apropos last week’s byte about the two Franks, Fahey and Fahy, it has been brought to our attention that Frank Fahy, the Fine Gael one without an e, is using G as his middle name. 

As in, he’s referring to himself as Frank G Fahy, with the G standing for Gabriel.

Apparently he used his middle name initial in an advert in a local soccer calendar recently.

Is it because he expects the former Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey to return and contest the local elections; and that the sitting City Councillor wants to distinguish between himself further from the former junior minister? 

For more, read this week’s Connacht Sentinel.