We need some new cliches

[ceemage]

The exit polls suggest that the Irish Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is going to be a Yes vote, which, according to people whose opinions on such matters I value, is a good thing. But I have a more pressing question. Why does the British media always feel the need to illustrate any story about voting in Ireland with a picture of a nun? Are we meant to assume that no-one else but nuns vote in Irish elections? Is it a nunocracy? Are British nuns presumed disenfranchised? And, more to the point, have any Irish orders cottoned on to this and managed to develop a profitable sideline in merchandising their "image rights" to British media of Sister Mary popping one in a ballot box? I think we should be told. Or, at any rate, told off.