Sarah Carey - a tonic to Fintan O'Toole's indignity

[JCSkinner]

Still exists. Nobody uses it. It's all Wolfram Alpha now.
I think they were hoping for a Google buyout that hasn't come.

[Supermanpolitician]

Sarah Carey is a ghastly little suck up who will write anything that is likely to put her in Madam's good books. She's straining very hard to make herself a darling of the establishment right. Pity she's such a crap columnist though. As for Fintan O' Toole, I'd say her silly wittering is the equivalent of a scarcely audible midge flying about the room.

O' Toole is bang on the money about the Labour Party. There is a need for a strong party of the left in Ireland. We have more than enough right wing, reactionary politicians for one small Island and Spring's disastrous modernisation has rendered Labour into something resembling a soggy lettuce leaf. 'Realpolitik' is the last thing this country needs right now: it's just a jaded euphemism for corruption, cronyism and carrying with all the failed policies and philosophies which have destroyed us.

There is no left or right anymore. O'Toole and Carey differ on this very point, as I suspect you and I do. I would argue that the so called centre right parties left the whole left right ideology behind once they realised it was no longer relevant. Labour are arguing that it still is relevant but O'Toole's patronising tone that we somehow can't see that makes it hard to take him seriously on the matter.

[Supermanpolitician]

Whatever happened to that Cuil.com search engine that Carey was doing the PR for last year?

Regards...jmcc

Used it once, not impressed.

But she is bang on here.

[hiding behind a poster]

Is that you Sarah? Posting comments on your own articles?

READ MY POSTS, you are the one talking about bribes / rewards / returns

Sarah has questions to answer with with respect to her published comments and her fathers voting record on rezoning land in material contravention of the County development plan.

Fact is that none of that has anything to do with this thread. You're way off topic there, 121.5.

[cactusflower]

Used it once, not impressed.

But she is bang on here.

I haven't read her blog yet, but as a general principle I would say that a left wing party would not be well advised to take advice from Sarah Carey any more than Fine Gael would take advice from Cael.

[jmcc]

Still exists. Nobody uses it. It's all Wolfram Alpha now.
I think they were hoping for a Google buyout that hasn't come.

Either that or a Microsoft buyout. The hype was as amazing as the subsequent traffic collapse. Jimbo Wales' (Wikipedia) Wikiasearch venture also folded a few months ago and without any monetisation strategy, Cuil.com must be on borrowed time. (Apologies for dragging the thread slightly off-topic.)

Regards...jmcc

[Clanrickard]

Great article. Well said that lady. Time Labour wised up to facts and ditched the 60s class warfare language.

[hopi watcher]

I haven't read her blog yet, but as a general principle I would say that a left wing party would not be well advised to take advice from Sarah Carey any more than Fine Gael would take advice from Cael.

Correct. Carey is without doubt the worst columnist in the country and that includes Harris. She is doing what Harriss himself did. Appeal to the right wing press owners and increase the chances of a few pay days. Anything that they think will tittilate the likes of O'Reilly et al and the result is the drivel that appears today.

[Jock_the_Waster]

As Sarah Carey or was it her father, Councillor 'For' Carey quoted?

[SIZE="3"]"Bad debts make for bad planning"[/SIZE]

but Sarah definitely wrote the following:

In fact, county councils themselves were guilty of granting permission in order to pay debts - their own.

Levies paid by developers to the local authority on grant of permission were a tempting source of finance.

Many suspect that some permissions were granted with the levy rather than the merits of the application in mind.

Interesting

[oceanclub]

Whatever happened to that Cuil.com search engine that Carey was doing the PR for last year?

I think she ended up shutting down her blog over Strawberries-and-muffinGate:

Quantum porn engine foiled by strawberries and muffins ? The Register

P.