Spare a thought to the Scrooges of Ireland!

Killer Pigeon

I think at this time of the year we ought to give just one small belated thought to all those people out there who resemble in so many ways the character of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge. Oh we know these individuals too well. The people who cared not one ounce about the misfortunes of others from whom they benefited. The people who cared a lot more about their own private gain and profit rather than the welfare of the ordinary man.

Yes, I am indeed lamenting about the lonely bankers, builders and Fianna Fáil politicians. Yes, lonely is indeed the word to describes these creatures. At this festive season, they must feel so abandoned and friendless in their desolate mansions with very little in what might be considered true campaigns to frequent and console with.

Let us pray that between now and Christmas Morning that they might expunge their greedy, insatiable and self-centered ways in recognition of the fervent spirit of Christmas. Let us hope they they might give back what they stole from society and take example from Scrooge and how he saw the error in his ways. Surely they can't be total misanthropes.

It may seem like a perfectly nonsensical fairytale but is there not even the mildest of chances that they might do so? Perhaps a miracle or a visit by three mystical ghosts to their bedchambers to help them realise their failings? It would be so befitting for this time of year that for once we could see the reversal of this land's demise and its redemption with the human spirit of kindness from quite unexpected sources.