It was a Good year for:
Organic farmers (for the second year running).
Bertie Ahern (for getting the top job without having to negotiate with Dick Spring)
Mary Harney (for leading the PDs to electoral disaster but still landing the number two spot).
David Andrews (for landing the job held by Ray Burke - see below).
Dick Spring (for getting more time to spend with his family).
Estate agents (unfortunately).
Ennis (for putting Castlebar, Killarney and Kilkenny in their place).
Ireland on Sunday (for coming into being . . . and taking sales off the Sunday Indo
Supermarket competition (and just wait till the other UK biggies follow Tesco)
Prionsias De Rossa (who needs the Lotto!)
His legal team (and all others too!)
Builders (except Z*e D*velo*men*s)
Michelle Rocca and Albert Reynolds (both pyrrhic victors)
Margaret Heffernan (who beat the brother in court and managed to present a human face at THAT tribunal)
The banks (perpetual trophy).
It was a Bad for:Ray Burke (for becoming a former).
David Andrews (for his `not unlike a government')
Paul Sreenan (for having his barrister fees to Irish Lights cut 50 percent from £31,500 to £15,000 by the Supreme Court, which did not identify him, and for than being named by the newspapers - temptation impossible to resist, m'lud).
Ruairi Quinn's family (see Dick Spring above).
Medium sized, family run Irish grocery shops.
Zero tolerance.
Eamon Dunphy (tee-hee!)
Radio I------ (£5 if you still can remember what it's called and where to find it on your radio dial).
Presidential candidates (except Mackers who won, and Dana who re-invented herself as a serious political contender)
Mackers' inaugural wardrobe.
Mayo footballers (for losing the All-Ireland two years in a row - eejits!).
Dublin commuters (where oh where Luas?).
Clonmel (where global warming is unknown but the global economy is not).
Derry (except for the glaziers).
Refugees.