Silver wedding and the big Five-O
Bradley Bytes – A Sort of Political Column by Dara Bradley
Being married to City Councillor Frank Fahy, we suspect, is not all plain sailing.
Hats off then to his long-suffering wife, Gerardine, (not Geraldine, as we mistakenly called her in the past) for putting up with Frank the taxi driver for the past 25 years.
That’s no mean feat! Even Frankeen will attest to that.
The Menlo based duo celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary yesterday, Monday, September 30.
September 30, 2013 also happens to be Frank’s birthday and this year it’s a significant one – his 50th.
Frank tells us the fact that the two significant dates coincide has its advantages and disadvantages.
“It’s on my birthday so I never forget our wedding anniversary,” he laughs, “. . . but it means I only get the one present!”
Tired and emotional at launch of book
It was the droll Labour Party Minister Pat Rabbitte who once said that insomniacs and drunks were the only types of viewers who tuned into RTÉ television for its Oireachtas Report programme.
Drunks and insomniacs sprung to mind when we discovered that former Galway West Fine Gael TD, Pádraig McCormack, who was the party’s chairman, launched his book last week . . . on a Monday night, at 10pm.
Normally, you’d launch these things at a time most convenient for as many people as possible to attend . . . 10pm on a Monday night in September ain’t it, we’re afraid . . . unless of course you’ve a ‘lip on you’ or can’t sleep . . . or if you happened to be stuck there after attending a meeting.
Although it was a bit of an own-goal, in that the launch after the FG rally was hardly going to attract cross-party support, launching the book following the Fine Gael meeting on the abolition of the Seanad in the Menlo Park at least ensured there was no need to ‘rent a crowd’ and the Blueshirts there for the meeting would have felt obliged to remain on.
For more, read this week's Connacht Sentinel.