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Best picture, best director and best international feature have gone to a movie which really deserves it, a film from beyond the Los Angeles parish pump.

Instead of gladhanding constituents and attending funerals, two traditional elements of Ireland’s parish pump politics, Varadkar prefers to read policy papers and strategise with aides.

"He didn't like having to write down which was the biggest marrow. The parish pump stuff clearly didn't appeal to him."

"Why the UN Can't Solve the World's Problems" ran an accusatory headline over the weekend in the New York Times, a newspaper that's something of a parish pump for UN diplomats.

And a bonny rumpus there wor yo mind, for yo may think ha it wor conducted when they wur threapin wi wun another like a lot o’ oud wimen at a parish pump when it sud be.