Jaysus boys...

... would yez stop pushin' me? an calm down ! and mind me harp will ye ! I'm after tellin' yez that we can't rush things!"
...the Irish President Mary McAleese has announced that she will be taking a 10% pay cut in light of the current budgetary troubles. The finance Minister Brian Lenihan says he and his ministerial colleagues will also take a 10% wage cut. The opposition leader has instructed his party's parliamentarians to take a 5% cut. The governor of the Irish Central Bank and Financial Services Authority has volunteered to also surrender 10% of pay. RTÉ's top six executives are taking a "significant reduction" in pay. This follows the government's announcement of a round of spending cuts as recession bites...
...and here in New Zild The Hon. Winston Peters Out has offered, in a last desperate push to regain public affection to forgo his Ministerial limo in favour of a Vespa, take a 99% pay cut and turn all his attention if elected to campaigning for the public flogging of illegal immigrants...Jaysus boys...