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Thursday, March 27, 2008 :
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Sex and the Seanad: Harris reveals mission
HIS name is Harris, Eoghan Harris, and he’s on a one-man mission to put a sexy sizzle into the Seanad.
He flirted with drugs and the IRA in his youth and now — despite the equipment not being as reliable as it once was — he just loves those ladies in the upper house, all of them.
The saucy senator turns up the heat in the current issue of Hot Press with his thoughts on prostitution, drugs and eroticism.
“One of the reasons I really enjoy the Seanad is because Leinster House allows me to meet a fantastic range of real Irish women. Senator Geraldine Feeney is a terribly good-looking woman.
“I really admire Beverly Flynn. I love her testosterone, her energy and her sense of fun. And I love the women in the Seanad,” he said.
As if starring in his own TV show — Sex and the Seanad — the sharing senator speaks with candour of lust and libido in a way few Oireachtas members have dared to in the past.
“I have always liked the erotic dimension in women. People say to me, ‘Well, you would because you’re getting older and you’re not able to do it any more!’ And there’s a lot of truth in that! There is a decline of sexual function, there’s no point pretending there isn’t,” he informs as he reveals his new, younger wife gets as much out of the marriage as he does because they are “political soul mates”.
And in radical policy stances that would, no doubt, make his buddy Bertie Ahern blush and bury his head in a pint of Bass, Senator Harris wants prostitutes taxed and heroin decriminalised.
Despite the tax status of the Taoiseach who appointed him to the upper house being somewhat in doubt, Mr Harris would like to see the men from the Revenue beating their way to the doors of every prostitute in Ireland.
“I think prostitution should be decriminalised. Every attempt should be made to smash the grip of the pimps. And every attempt to make prostitutes self-employed PLCs. She should be Katy PLC. And taxed on it,” he reveals.
The self-effacing senator concedes that his flirtation with drugs did him no favours.
“I smoked a fair amount of marijuana for one year. I found, while alcohol made me look eloquent and gracious, pot made me stupid and slow, you know?” Mr Harris announced as he once again lured the reader into his innermost world.
“I totally believe in the decriminalisation of drugs. I believe in the short term it would cause dreadful difficulties and problems, but that’s the necessary price you pay for any great shift in social issues. Alcohol, cocaine, heroin, they are not all the same, but if you don’t decriminalise drugs you are running straight up to stuff like crystal meth now,” he tells the magazine.
He may love the women of Leinster House, but his devotion remains to the Taoiseach, as the senator rails against the “cruel and unnatural” scrutiny Mr Ahern has been subjected to.
As if Mr Harris was not exciting enough, he claims he was turned down for the IRA in 1968, with the leadership telling him he “didn’t have it in him” to shoot anyone.
So, thankfully, no guns for the silver-tongued senator — just plenty of Seanad roses to admire.
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