That’s Ireland

Just to recap: I wrote a prank letter to Albert Reynolds when he was Taoiseach, about the very silly concept of dogbowls modelled as dinner plates. He wrote back that he would check with the IDA about it. I then wrote to the head of the IDA, who wrote back to me. Now here is what happened next:

• The Taoiseach’s office wrote to the IDA, enclosing a copy of my letter to him.
• The IDA wrote back to the Taoiseach, enclosing a copy of his letter to me.
• The Taoiseach’s office wrote again to me, enclosing a copy of the letter from the IDA to the Taoiseach telling the Taoiseach that the IDA had written to me.

Ah, the wonders of democracy. Here are those letters: >>> (more…)