Fine Gael Leader’s Presidential Address - Speech by Enda Kenny TD - March 20th 2010

[Tomas Mor]

You missed nothing, terrible speech, terrible delivery.....

Poster is right, for really good speecehes, clearly delivered with good diction, content , promises etc you have to tune in to FF Ard Fheieanna- Bertie and de brudder with All Hallows elocution, Cowen slurring, McCreevy massacre of syllables, Conor Lenihan lisps, Albert Reynolds country and Western,
; Haughey - if there is oil out there we'll bring is ashore (at a price), I could go on and on

[Tomas Mor]

Ah if you read my post I was saying that FF/FG are two sides of the same coin. As for you comments on Pearse, I will leave that down to the medication your on.

@ Rosmuc

Do you want the evidence about young boys, it even appears in his poetry. Apologies if I said you were a FF lackey, terrible thing to accuse anyone of. Maybe its worse, its SF, but I doubt that in view of Adams cover up of paedophile, worse than Brady, whom McGuinness calls on to resign. Pot calling kettle black.

[gawoo1012]

Ah jaysis, not another "i met a woman lasht week in dublin..............." Did nobody learn him as they say in mayo??
All we need now is "Let ME tell YOU............................"

I'd rather listen to this that Biffo's "looking forward" and "new paradigms"

[gawoo1012]

Pay them less and employ more of them.

150k should do them nicely. That'll allow the numbers to be ramped up at no extra cost.

Couldn't agree more. For every €1m pumped into the Health Service here, we can employ 4 hospital Consultants. The same €1m will allow yoou employ 12 Consultants in the UK.

[turdsl]

@ Rosmuc

Do you want the evidence about young boys, it even appears in his poetry. Apologies if I said you were a FF lackey, terrible thing to accuse anyone of. Maybe its worse, its SF, but I doubt that in view of Adams cover up of paedophile, worse than Brady, whom McGuinness calls on to resign. Pot calling kettle black.

Kenny did fain enough last night, Adams came through with flying colours in the interviews
with both Crowley and Sean O Rourke,That will be a test for Enda, lets hope he does as good , It is a problem that we have to keep our fingers crossed with our hearts in our mouths,

[Tomas Mor]

Kenny did fain enough last night, Adams came through with flying colours in the interviews
with both Crowley and Sean O Rourke,That will be a test for Enda, lets hope he does as good , It is a problem that we have to keep our fingers crossed with our hearts in our mouths,

Ah Yes, Adams is very good on economics as he proved in last election here. And if there was a discrepancy in the books at the end of the year, well Northern Bank could always come to the rescue. Dont blame it all on Seanie and Anglo, we are too hard on him.

[gawoo1012]

Serving two terms is a bit of an achievement, but consecutive?

Grover Cleveland is the only two-term president to serve non-consecutive terms. Its all but unknown in the American system.

Joe,you really need to get out more. Besides, the fresh air will help to air out your anorak

[I'mVeryGladYouAskedMeThat]

Ah Yes, Adams is very good on economics as he proved in last election here.

[turdsl]

Ah Yes, Adams is very good on economics as he proved in last election here. And if there was a discrepancy in the books at the end of the year, well Northern Bank could always come to the rescue. Dont blame it all on Seanie and Anglo, we are too hard on him.

Adams economics was as good as those in power, Kenny has put nothing concrete forward yet either,.,Dreaming about doing away with the Senad is just treating the electorate as stupid, it will never happen ,Lets hear him with Richard Crowley today,and by the way, stupid remarks about Norhern bank, they are all worn out,

[gawoo1012]

Just doubled checked the "speach", you are quite correct, I miss heard “500,000” new jobs. Obviously this might be a realistic target for a country with 10 million + people but in a country with 4.2 million people, it’s obviously unrealistic, unless you are sending people to work in the fields.

However the question remains, where is this 18 billion euro of “new money” coming from? Flogging off the ESB would raise a significant amount of cash, not nearly enough. I’d imagine the new owners would also be keen to recoup their investment by hiking prices, thus undermining Kenny’s policy of “making things cheaper”.

The big elephant in the room though, is the the new question of value for money - the numbers suggest each of these “105,000 new jobs” will cost €170,000... anyone want to attempt to explain how this is good value???

Was it not FF's ingenius decision to allow the ESB to raise Electricity prices to help attract foreign competitors into the market. With Airtricity and Bord Gais in this space, it would create real competition if the ESB was in private ownership as they are currently prohibited by law from reducing their prices. In a nutshell, you are talking crap