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However the Olympic ticket fiasco concludes, we have seen two delicious examples of hubris- ->nemesis at play in some of the main 'actors'.
First -Mr.Ross. A short while ago he succumbed to his political ego and belittled the Attorney General's advice as 'just another opinion' .
Now he has to go crawling to the same AG to seek advice on how to deal with the current contretemps.
Second -Mr.Hickey . His hubristic thrust was to humiliate Mr.Ross ,an elected representative of the Irish people and a member of the Irish State apparatus .
Now ,having come close to doing a 'perp walk', he is glad to have the assistance of another wing of that same apparatus -the Irish Consular service.
Similar to the Greek exposition of 'tragedy' -we see in the Bible the injunction ' Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall'. [ Book of Proverbs 16:18]
First -Mr.Ross. A short while ago he succumbed to his political ego and belittled the Attorney General's advice as 'just another opinion' .
Now he has to go crawling to the same AG to seek advice on how to deal with the current contretemps.
Second -Mr.Hickey . His hubristic thrust was to humiliate Mr.Ross ,an elected representative of the Irish people and a member of the Irish State apparatus .
Now ,having come close to doing a 'perp walk', he is glad to have the assistance of another wing of that same apparatus -the Irish Consular service.
Similar to the Greek exposition of 'tragedy' -we see in the Bible the injunction ' Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall'. [ Book of Proverbs 16:18]
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Mark Twain opined that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel; I suggest that coming in a very close penultimate spot is the doctor's cert.
An apocryphal story: a friend of mine at Cheltenham is engrossed in the closing stages of a race when the commentator announces "the horses are approaching the pre-penultimate flight" and he turns to me and says "WTF?" |
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 I bet it wasn,t Sir Peter O’Sullevan R.A. |