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Interesting review of Berties recent antics.
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Interesting review of Berties recent antics.
Excellent article and a fitting riposte to the sycophantic, hagiographic ************************e spewed up by O'Connor, Harris et al.Originally Posted by Outlander
Goodbye and, indeed, good riddance!
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Tonys and Co. will be along to rubbish this one!Excellent article and a fitting riposte to the sycophantic, hagiographic ************************e spewed up by O'Connor, Harris et al.
Goodbye and, indeed, good riddance!
The article could have dealt more with the shambles that the man was presiding over! Lousy schools, roads, hospitals, policing and the list is long. We are being regaled with tales of huge expenditure in all these areas but it is simply throwing money at unsolvable problems. There is. it seems, one pair of balls being shared by the Oireachtas and even FG and the mealy mouthed are in on that share.
There are many voters who will not take a chance on government change because their social welfare payments might suffer. Others who have their state jobs and don't fancy the dole queue which is a strong possibility if ever we get some politicians with the guts to scrap the gravy train.
Now that the mawkish tribute to the dodgy leader is over he seems to be dead news and the show will carry on as before.
Next instalment for the gutless is June 12 where we will be told to vote on an issue we don't have the faintest idea about no more than do the majority of clowns who want us to vote yes. The Irish mood is "the devil you know" and don't take a stand on anything.
Great article, sums up the character of Ahern perfectly or as one should more accurately say, the man's lack of character.
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Excellent article, the feeling of empty promises and words combined with spin and a desire to enrich himself, to be viewed as a benafactor comes screaming through.
When he says at the end "Goodbye sniveller, good riddance" there should be more, like the chattels this guy has acquired taken from him and those who have benefited and the thought of him living off his State pensions for his duation is quite frankly, sickening.
Send him to the Joy and charge him a daily rate, slopping out his Wing would concentrate his mind.
The legacy is starting to come to light and now that he is all but gone none of the FF have any more real interest in him as his usefulness is gone.
The boom was squandered with f* all to whow for it, what further use could he be? Another football stadium?
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An excellant piece.A psychcologist would not sum it up better.The man was a politician not a statesman,with a dictatorial view of the Irish people (sheep).He will in my view go down in history as the worst leader this country ever had,no vision ,no principles,a leader that looked at his people as "things" to get what he wanted,an auction politiician who bought votes using the taxpayers monies and Tammany Hall politics.I hope the young people in this country can see through the facade that is Bertie politics,a man who has left a legacy to our children that no good parent would ever , unless they where complete psychopaths.
A champion of the people emerges with the age-old and appealing promise of "something for nothing" - to be financed through every-increasing taxes. Supply and demand are thrown out of gear - the overhead goes up; the effective use of human energy goes down; the standard of living is lowered because money cannot buy wealth that is not produced.
WEAVER, HENRY GRADY,
Thats the first good article I've read from the S.Indo for years, not just because its well written, but because it's true.
Actual morality is doing what is right regardless of what you're told. Religious morality is doing what you're told, regardless of if it's right.
Hats of to Eamon Sweeney a lad I wouldn't always have seen eye to eye on.
The hypocrisy that has attached itself to Ahern's leaving needed to be ******************************ed.
It's a trait of Irishness I have always felt has let us down
An unwillingness or inability to call a spade a spade in certain circumstances and in fact over egg it completely with fawning disingenouus tributes about characters you privately view as slimy chancers.
If Ahern has one skill it is the ability to play this card brilliantly.
Tapping into the stupidity of this "don't play the man" unwritten rule that is ridiculously over respected in Ireland and is the single reason for the longetivity of Haughey and Ahern, who survived decades despite a constant and lingering smell off each.
If bone idle journalists over three decades had rolled up their sleeves and got forensic on these two bastards, we'd have been spared the pair of them.
Instead we had to rely on two flukey occurrences (Ben Dunne's cocaine moment and the loopy P Flynn running amok on the Late Late) to finally get people off their lazy arses and digging when teh World and its mother already knew it all stank to high heaven.
Haughey had this in spades as well, knowing full well that many privately suspected he was a crook but gambled for decades that they had neither the courage, wit or patience to go about proving it.
Ditto Ahern, he never thought it would get this far so now he is wheeling out his A game bag of tricks to tap into this psyche.
"De family, the simple man, those fat cat legal lads aren't like us lads eh, the National Stadium, the don't be embarassing the country by washing our dirty laundry in public routine".
************************ him,he has milked us dry. Only the braindead, the sycophants and the various hacks who view being allowed to cosy up to Bertie for a pint to promote their own profile as more important to them than honesty, still make a case for him.
I heartily second Sweeney, good riddance.
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