Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams has admitted to running through his allotment of printer cartridges already, while his fellow Shinners have been proclaimed winners in the all-Dail printing competition.
Sinn Fein TD's are at the top of the heap when it comes to official printing costs, and everyone is wondering what it is that they're printing. It's all supposed to be for official government business, after all, and how many A4 leaflets can one political party produce in any given year?
Aengus O Snodaigh has been dubbed "Wolfe Toner" after running 434 cartridges dry in a two year period.
Clever name, but to hard-pressed Irish taxpayers, it isn't all that funny. Cost of those printer cartridges is estimated at E50,000. That's a lot of money for producing a lot of words in one constituency.
There are calls on Mr. O Snodaigh to reimburse the State for some excessive verbiage creation, but he's insisting that it was all government business and he wasn't printing things for other Shinners.
Opposition leaders are calling for an investigation, but all they have to do is match up paper use to cartridge capacity and determine if there's a correlation. Who knows, but maybe the Shinners were laundering printer cartridges to fund their ongoing war against British oppression in the north. Can someone verify the amount of copy paper used to see if the two items match up?
Unless, of course, they were clever enough to launder reams of paper at the same time. Then you'd have to see if there were tons of leaflets dropped in Dublin South Central.
The people in Mr. O Snodaigh's constituency say they never received enough leaflets to account for all that printing.
Could it be that he's really an aspiring author, sending off submissions to literary agents who require the first fifty pages and a three-page synopsis via snail mail?
That could account for all those printer cartridges, especially if Mr. O Snodaigh is a particularly determined writer who doesn't want anyone to know of his secret yearning to be published.
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