Well, Christmas is officially over and we should be taking down our decorations this weekend. I hope you enjoyed it and got something you needed over the holiday season. I had a lovely break. My husband and I were lucky to be able to go on holiday to the sun over the Christmas period and we had a lovely relaxing time. We then came back to unusually snowny weather in Ireland. We also returned to the news that our Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Whatever your feelings about the cuts Mr. Lenihan proposed in the December budget, he has demonstrated great strength and dignity in his response to the media. He is married with two teenage children. The story was broken by TV3 (TV3 Article) on St. Stephen's Day the 26th of December, apparently in the public interest, but as Minister Lenihan said himself in an interview, surely the information could have been released on the 4th of January without any loss to the public interest. The media has a lot to answer for. I'm sure none of the journalists who broke the story would have wanted news of any disease they might have broken to friends and family in the same way.
I commend Mr. Lenihan for his courage and I wish him well with his treatment in 2010.
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