The next five years for Martin Cullen.

[Coles]

I'm not a great fan of Cullen and I am bewildered as to how he has risen to the heights of being a Minister. What use is he?

Obviously he is ambitious, and I think he revealed his plan for the next five years in an interview on RTE earlier... In the interview he downplayed his costituency and instead focused on the region, repeatedly. He also went on to declare his intention to be a 'regional minister'. I suppose he sees it as raising his status in FF, but seriously, how much higher can he go without being found out? It's not enough to just inflate his media profile, he also has to manage his portfolio in a competent impartial way. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered about the rather expensive Evoting debacle...

[Gimpanzee]

He is a Fianna Fail TD from the biggest population centre in the south east with health personal vote. That is where it begins and ends with Cullen. Competence or otherwise has little or nothing to do with it.

[alonso]

he's a walking monument to the weakness in our political system. How anyone with his intellect and arrogance can hold down any job, let alone one the public chooses, is beyond me.

Ah but sure he's out there at sunrise every day building the M9 and the Suir bridge all by himself if some are to be believed. I think he;s there to make the rest look better, but us Dubs with our meeja and our phone-ins and our big mad thick heads our Johnnie Bluews n James's Gates's, nitelinks, lewisses's's n Darts, and evening heddilds sure we're in no position to judge a-tall a-tall.

bollox. He's a useless man.

[Insider2007]

he's a walking monument to the weakness in our political system. How anyone with his intellect and arrogance can hold down any job, let alone one the public chooses, is beyond me.

Ah but sure he's out there at sunrise every day building the M9 and the Suir bridge all by himself if some are to be believed. I think he;s there to make the rest look better, but us Dubs with our meeja and our phone-ins and our big mad thick heads our Johnnie Bluews n James's Gates's, nitelinks, lewisses's's n Darts, and evening heddilds sure we're in no position to judge a-tall a-tall.

bollox. He's a useless man.

Well he had achieved one thing. He has become the Carlsberg minister: probably the worst minister in the world.

[alonso]

ah yes but his zealous supporters will tell you he's not as bad as Micheal Martin. That'll be his political obituary when he retires:

He was thoroughly useless, arrogant, wasteful, and dim. But he was no Micheal Martin.

[Pericles]

I'm no fan of Cullen but I do think it's important that there's representation at the cabinet table from all the geographical areas of the country, including Waterford. I'd say the real people at fault are the Waterford FF cumann for nominating personalities like Cullen, Ollie Wilkinson and Brendan Kenneally, none of whom could be said to be star TDs. Obviously it's their prerogative but it is a pity that they can't find someone more competent willing to stand for them.

[Pericles]

ah yes but his zealous supporters will tell you he's not as bad as Micheal Martin. That'll be his political obituary when he retires:

He was thoroughly useless, arrogant, wasteful, and dim. But he was no Micheal Martin.

Is Martin's image that poor outside of Cork?

[BJ]

I'm no fan of Cullen but I do think it's important that there's representation at the cabinet table from all the geographical areas of the country, including Waterford. I'd say the real people at fault are the Waterford FF cumann for nominating personalities like Cullen, Ollie Wilkinson and Brendan Kenneally, none of whom could be said to be star TDs. Obviously it's their prerogative but it is a pity that they can't find someone more competent willing to stand for them.

good for us that the people of Waterford disagreed with your viewpoint.

[parish pump]

How anyone with his intellect and arrogance can hold down any job
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Well you've been doing it for some time so you obviously know how its done.

[CookieMonster]

but us Dubs with our meeja and our phone-ins and our big mad thick heads our Johnnie Bluews n James's Gates's, nitelinks, lewisses's's n Darts, and evening heddilds sure we're in no position to judge a-tall a-tall.

I that that was the single most annoying paragraph I've ever read on this site.