Leo the Narcissist

[niall78]

Who do you think the photografer was?

Probably a family member getting triple the going rate...........

[ddoggfather]

he reminds me of the other obnoxious idiot across the pond, ed miliband

[Casualbets]

Is there no limit to Leo Varadkar's vanity? His department has spent €6,400 on PR shots in nine months. Small wonder he was all over the weekend papers.



'Lovely Leo' forks out €6,400 on PR shots of himself - News, Frontpage - Herald.ie

In fairness, you can understand the problem...

"Okay Leo, try and look a little less smug this time"
"Okay, let's just try and lose the self-satisfied smirk this time.."
"Okay, let's try some sticky tape so the facial muscles don't fall into their default smug position..."

[Boy M5]

I read the print edition earlier (rag i know b4 ye feel the need to point it out) and the same article said
james reilly treated himself to 2 new coffee machines because "its a long walk to the canteen".

But hey we got a bargain at 600eur....

Bottler needs the exercise though

[crossroads dancer]

The sunbed

[Bill]

Cherryorchard tyres,done a grand whacky-up to get it thru nct,all braised and bandaged to perfection.

Same paper has Dr james o reilly buying 2 coffee machines for 600 for his office because "its a long walk to the canteen"

does fat chewie not know the walk would do him good

[DownTheyGo]

Minister Varadkar is probably thinking to himself, the essence of public decision making in any referendum will now be based loosely on "my" tax funded vanity affair... *shakes*

Not the real issues at stake here, Leo, eh? Piece of advice, stop giving to the electorate every reason to doubt you and your competence and then it won't matter.

[Jackass]

F in Ponse.

[powderfinger]

There is an easy way to sort this mess out and the cute heurism associated with it.

Get the dole office to send around two unemployed kids 20 to 25 year olds. One should have knowledge of how to use a DSLR, which is quite a lot of kids these days and the other should have done make up and hair at some point, in a beauticians.

Pay them both €30,000 a year and travel costs each. Buy one a Canon DSLR for about €1000, a static lighting kit with greenscreen for €200 on Ebay and €5000 of lenses. Take the other to the Beauty suppliers and get her an account for make up and tools.

Then ban any TD from having expenses for photos, make up or hair. Any breach of that ban should carry at least a ten year jail term and complete seizure of all assets.

That would reduce the overall costs to the Dail and in the process give two kids who most likely haven't a hope in hell of getting a job, into fulltime employment. That would also stop two kids from having to leave the country to find work and thereby stop two families from breaking up.

All in, it would save money by cutting Dail expenses, reduce cute heurism as in giving contracts to friends and keep two families together. A win-win all around.

The spend on photography at Simon Coveney's department would easily cover one wage bill.€27,548* was incurred from Mar-Dec 2011.
* Dáil Éireann - 14/Dec/2011 Written Answers - Departmental Expenditure

A three-day photoshoot,at last year's ploughing championships, accounted for approximately 25% of the outlay.
Coveney to probe cost of photos | Irish Examiner

AGRICULTURE Minister Simon Coveney is to investigate why more than €6,700 of taxpayers’ money was spent on a three-day photoshoot at the National Ploughing Championships.

The photographs, taken by Fennell Photography, capture Mr Coveney and junior agriculture minister Shane McEntee in a variety of poses throughout the three-day event, including Mr Coveney in wellies, Mr Coveney wearing a chef’s hat while cooking, and the minister posing with a variety of food produce exhibited at the various stalls. Some of the images are posted on the department’s website.

When asked on the eve of what promises to be a punishing budget why it was necessary to spend so much department funding on publicity, Mr Coveney said: "The honest answer is I don’t have all the details. It does seem like a lot was spent and I am a little bit taken aback. Obviously, we need to make sure that any money spent on PR or photography represents value for money and if, when I follow it up, it turns out that we overspent, it won’t happen again."

Mr Coveney was at pains to point out that the ploughing championships are the most important event of the year for the agriculture and agri-food sector and that, as "the political face and voice" of that sector, it was his job to "tell that story, be it through photographs or interviews".