Harris Gets A Tabloid Kicking

It is, of course, part of any public figures job – getting a good old-fashioned pasting every now and then…

With our health service currently undergoing something of a crisis – with hospitals suffering a bed shortage – the surgical knives are out for Simon Harris.

The country’s youngest-ever Minister of Health, Harris came under fire yesterday from right-wing tabloid The Liberal – although The Liberty might be a more apt title.

Accompanied by a shot of Harris that made him look like a juvenile delinquent leaving court yet again, the opinion piece from last night read…

If ever there was an example of a boy being sent to do a man’s job, it’s the current case of the 30-yr-old youngster who Enda Kenny has given perhaps the most important job of all, Minster for Health Simon Harris.

We are currently going through an unprecedented flu epidemic that has exasperated the already bed-stricken hospital trolley crisis across the country, what’s Simon’s answer?

“Simon says” we’re doing much better!

What he didn’t add was that we’re doing much better… than Zimbabwe or Cambodia.

Enda Kenny has failed over and over and over again as Taoiseach, but surely he can do better than this utter failure of a “Minsiter for Health”.

The Irish people deserve better than a 30-yr-old who said he was going to “kick ass” in the HSE, we haven’t seen much kicked yet.

Good to know someone’s yelling it like it is, and, through some fine taxi driver journalism, is putting the world to rights.