Gormley appoints 2 failed Green candidates to €25k State boards: Sunday Times

[riven]

Of course the alternative government would never think of appointing a croney to a plum job. Then again is there an alternative government, it gets more embarrasing daily watching the Anti FF Party in action !!

So when good men do nothing that isn't eil enough eh? It has nothing to do with the 'others'; the GP are clearly setting their own standards. I wonder if Gormley can proide a justification other than long serice fo the appointments?

[SideysGhost]

Sorry but when did appointing anybody onto the board of a body become corruption ?

Nice one Odie, just just summed up the utter moral degeneracy at the heart of Irish politics.

In a sense you are right, most Irish people don't actually consider this to be corruption. It's just payoffs, perks, entitlements, the way things are done. Right? What could possibly be the harm, stop making a fuss over nothing,keep the head down and say nuttin and one day maybe a job like that will come your way, eh?

But outside this little cesspit of an island, this is corruption, oh yes indeed. And corruption doesn't pay, not in the long run. And all this petty little corruption adds up, and as the years roll by and nothing is done this corruption eats away at the moral foundations of the State and at the hearts of every citizen.....and we end up with slime like Da Bert being the most popular and lauded Taoiseach in decades.....and a bankrupt State with an insolvent banking system, a shattered economy, hundreds of thousands of empty unsellable housing units, and a massive pile of debt with no way to pay it back.

And it really is that simple. "We are where we are" because of corruption, no more, no less. Prices are too high because of corruption. The housing bubble was corruption. The budget deficit is huge because of corruption, all those thousands and thousands of non-jobs for cronies and hacks. Corruption is the great political task of the next decade - because we either collectively as a nation turn our backs on strokes and scams and jobs for the boys and easy money and trousering a wedge and where's my cut - or we'll continue to sink, every year into more and more poverty and political degeneracy.

[edwin]

Those Fianna Fail genes again.

Good thing FG never did anything like that.

[Supermanpolitician]

Utter cronyism at its worst. Justifying it makes it look even worse. This is worthy of Bertie.

[Supermanpolitician]

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

[Supermanpolitician]

Sorry but when did appointing anybody onto the board of a body become corruption ?

Funny, that wasn't the opinion of Greens before they went into power. Gormley has lambasted the idea of political appointees to state boards before. He claims he wants reform, but won't put his money where his mouth is.

[cry freedom]

Those Fianna Fail genes again.

According to Richard Dawkins that should read Fianna Fail [FONT="Arial Black"]memes[/FONT]

[Unless you really mean it is in their blood]

[hopi watcher]

This just underlines how politics here has been totally corrupted. People are not entering politics to serve but rather to get their heads into the trough. But our problem remains, how do we vote for?

[Supermanpolitician]

This just underlines how politics here has been totally corrupted. People are not entering politics to serve but rather to get their heads into the trough. But our problem remains, how do we vote for?

Vote for the ones you want to get in!

I bet 95% of folks who voted FF knew they were corrupt, but only about 50% of Green voters knew they would be so hypocritical.

Your last sentence seems to indicatethat you do not recognise FG or Labour.

[cry freedom]

Nice one Odie, just just summed up the utter moral degeneracy at the heart of Irish politics.

In a sense you are right, most Irish people don't actually consider this to be corruption. It's just payoffs, perks, entitlements, the way things are done. Right? What could possibly be the harm, stop making a fuss over nothing,keep the head down and say nuttin and one day maybe a job like that will come your way, eh?

But outside this little cesspit of an island, this is corruption, oh yes indeed. And corruption doesn't pay, not in the long run. And all this petty little corruption adds up, and as the years roll by and nothing is done this corruption eats away at the moral foundations of the State and at the hearts of every citizen.....and we end up with slime like Da Bert being the most popular and lauded Taoiseach in decades.....and a bankrupt State with an insolvent banking system, a shattered economy, hundreds of thousands of empty unsellable housing units, and a massive pile of debt with no way to pay it back.

And it really is that simple. "We are where we are" because of corruption, no more, no less. Prices are too high because of corruption. The housing bubble was corruption. The budget deficit is huge because of corruption, all those thousands and thousands of non-jobs for cronies and hacks. Corruption is the great political task of the next decade - because we either collectively as a nation turn our backs on strokes and scams and jobs for the boys and easy money and trousering a wedge and where's my cut - or we'll continue to sink, every year into more and more poverty and political degeneracy.

Good post! Agree with every word!

This is what comes of 200 years of confusing morality with religion.

[He may be a son of a ************************* but he's [FONT="Arial Black"]our[/FONT] son of a *************************]