Celebrate the First Annual Donie Cassidy Day!

[essexboy]

With the €73,000 expenses he got last year
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he could buy property and boost the market!

[Abacus]

Aha...ye are at it again. Not content with the assassination attempts on P. Flynn then Bev (our Mayo Beauty), then poor deceased Liamo (RIP), then Rambo Ray (who has downsized to microlevel ),....I now see that ye have set yer sights on the noblest of all our Soldiers of Destiny......Donie Cassidy. To what purpose ?

Have ye no shame ? How many of ye have stood in the gap of danger ? ...sa bearr na baol.....in the very eye of the hurricane ? Well..how many of ye ? ? ?

None, that's how many and well we know it !
How many of ye ever acknowledged and admired his turning of the tide of disadvantage into a victory roll when all the pundits had written him off ? Isn't that the hallmark of the true politician. How many of ye have been garotted by your own because you tried to protect your own best interests and still lived to tell the tale ?

Ye, the anti Donie brigade, smallminded propertyless bigots that ye are thought ye had him banished from Irish political life when ye arranged for him to be dumped by the electorate only for this prince among politicians to pop up again in the Senate. Ya can't keep a good man down and when he's a Westmeath man ye have no chance.

There is much to admire about Donie. Did ye ever notice how all photographers are inexorably drawn to include Donie in mid-photo....that they always wait for him to take position just behind the leader or whoever is the celeb. Well that's because they at least know and recognise proper protocol. Oh, I can hear ye scoffing down here in the sticks but why should a Senate big shot be placed in the shade ? Why ?

And all the while all ye can do is bedrudge and envy and be cynical.
Well, lads, I have news for ye....twon't affect DC and it never has.

Ye just love to pick on soft targets, now don't ye.

[cyberianpan]

Its a healthy sign for our democracy , that a state representative has the freedom and indeed the courage to talk up the market . We need more like him .

Register of Members Interests of Seanad Éireann 1 January 2007 - 31 December 2007

CASSIDY, Donie
1. Occupational Income …….. Rental Income:
(1) Granby Row, Dublin 1;
(2) 59 The Green, Beaumont Woods, Dublin 9;
(3) 28 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2;
(4) Belvedere Hotel, Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1;
(5) Cassidys Hotel, 6, 7, 8 Cavendish Row and 9 Rutland
Place, Dublin 1;
(6) Lir Building, 52 Oliver Plunkett Street, Mullingar,
Co. Westmeath;
(7) 171 Belvedere Hills, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath;
(8) 7 Gardiner Row, Dublin 1;
(9) Dorset Hotel, Granby Row, Dublin 1;

I think more should be made of this

Blatant cheerleading for a bubble :

1) Either man was intending to fiddle the country for his advantage
2) Has extremely poor judgement

In either case he is no longer credible as leadership material - it is the likes of him that mean that Lenhian can't call too loudly for banker's heads

cYp

[Stroke]

This has played out over the past number of months on thepropertypin, the man's a legend. Amazes me how he can STILL get his head in any TV shot shot of any FF leader whenever they visit the midlands.....

[alonso]

* Drive on the right hand side of the road for a day."

we're saving that for Jim McDaid day

[muck_savage]

What is that thing that lives on Donie's head?

Is it indigenous? Has it a work permit?

[greatweecountry]

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The First Annual Donie Cassidy day will fall on a Friday, so you might want to start thinking about taking a long weekend.

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Well it is Friday 13th.

[oceanclub]

Happy Donie Cassidy Day, everyone! It's great weather we had for it, too. This week has been fantastic news for Donie's party - not only a generous giveaway budget, but a 30% increase in property prices in 12 months thanks to Donie. Well done.

[Abacus]

Well there can hardly be any doubt about it but there's two things the Irish sure don't like and that's success and failure. The Don has precious few failures and has almighty success in his business life but still he can do nothing right with ye lot. Oh, I know that they are only to be found beyond Newlands Cross and the Lucan Roundabout but they are still the very backbone of this country.

I'll give The Don this though.......he knows what the people are thinking at any given time and that's because like another famed Irish backwoodsman of the modern era in the political arena, his loyal constituents are those valiant and stoic people who still 'have their dinner in the middle of the day'.

[oceanclub]

I'm delighted to say that the second annual Donie Cassidy day is swiftly approaching:



We celebrate not only the 50% to 60% increase in house prices in the last two years (I mean, I assume that Donie meant it would be 25-30% per annum anyway), but also to thank him for all those 4-bedroom houses in the midlands that we all rushed out to buy on his say so last year (Senator defends gaffe on house prices - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie).

P.