Government Banana growing program a success

Willie O'Dea, Minister for Defense,
at local elections last year

Defense Minister, Willie O’Dea, has confirmed that the banana growing test at the €2,5 billion Bananatorium at a secret military base in Tralee, Co. Kerry had been a massive success. The program, set up under the patronage of outgoing Ceann Comharile O'Donoghue, employs 3 workers and 245 civil servants, and produced more that two pounds of bananas in the first year. Production next year is expected to rise by 50% and the number of people employed at the facility should rise 20% when the handicapped kid with one arm and claw hand is hired as Safety Officer.

“I can now proudly say that, under this government, that today Ireland has joined the league of the world’s banana-producing republics.” O’Dea told assembled journalists, “That does not mean that we are a banana republic because that would be something completely different..”