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Teachta Dodgers.
(From Irish Independent)
A growing number of people are coming to the view that TD no longer stands for Teachta Dala - but ...
It hasn't been a great week for voter apathy. Large sections of the electorate are disenchanted, angry or disillusioned. But not apathetic. Anything, in fact, but apathetic.
Nearly everybody has an opinion on the decision by the Dail to take another week off - less than a month after deputies came back from their protracted summer break.
And let's not even mention Junior Minister Frank Fahey's mysterious Spanish golfingholiday just days after the House shook itself awake and geared up for what everybody assumed would be a straight run all the way up to their extended Christmas holidays.
The opinions are invariably negative ones. As a result of what happened - or moreimportantly, didn't happen - this week, the notion has been embedded in the publicconsciousness that our elected representatives have become indolent, lazy and work-shy.
A growing number of people are coming to the view that TD no longer stands for Teachta Dala, but Teachta Dodger. Deputies can only hope that the Public Memory Act has clicked in before they next have to throw themselves on the mercy of the people.
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