Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the new leader of Ireland's soon-to-be-ex-governing party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x5Rcc17eb8No, that wasn't a clip from Father Ted.
I'm just surprised to hear he didn't pull his eyelids sideways while he said it, but maybe he's been on a diplomatic sensitivity course.
EDIT: This man has been on offical leave from his school teaching job for
20 years now -
thank grud - and if he doesn't get re-elected in a few weeks time he can stroll back into it, ministerial pension in hand, plus an entitlement to 90K 'severance pay'.