President Higgins doesn't walk the walk.

I listened to the Sean O Rourke Show during the week.There exists a gushing Blueshirt Seanad nominee  Seanator called Mary Louise O Donnell.I say gushing because she is capable of spouting soliloquy of many minutes duration without pausing for breath at all and joining the breathless oral thrusts  by copious usage of the conjunction "And.."
During the pro gramme she described in her usual breathless soliloquy the splendour of Aras AN UACHTARAN,the Vice Regal Lodge from the times of Empire in all its splendid glory,pausing now and again to say it was not opulent.
Of course this is arrant nonsense .It is opulence at its height and to deny it is foolish no matter how gushing you happen to be.
Now I see that The President is yet again interfering in political matters which do not fall within his remit.Had he wished to influence Government Policy as a real legislator he should have run yet again for the Dail on his Labour ticket.Perhaps he had the foresight to realize that the electorate had had enough of his Party's betrayal of working people's needs and he would be walking the plank into political obscurity ,like most of his colleagues, come the next election.
In any event he made the astute decision to continue to live high on the taxpayer hog in considerable opulence in the Aras ,whist sniping all the time from the sidelines at measures that he deems to be in amicable to the downtrodden..
All this verbal garbage from the President ,while he continues to be waited on hand and foot like the French Royalty prior to the Revolution sticks in my craw.
Methinks he should lead by example and live all of the time the more modest lifestyle of  Hermit and apply the massive amounts of money he receives to the use of those he keeps blathering about.
Then he would have my respect.