Donie Cassidy - “No one makes any money out of politics"

[FutureTaoiseach]

Now I can better understand the arrogance that would refuse to accept the result of a referendum and that would seek to blame the Irish people for the recession rather than the incompetent buffoons that pass for our government. Cassidy's comments, coming after Noel O'Flynn's attempt to shield John O'Donoghue from accountability for the flagrant waste of taxpayers' money on such frivolities as using a plane to fly from one end of an airport to another by lofty, almost regal references to the 'dignity of the office of Ceann Comhairle' and the demands of Bertie Ahern to be called "Iar-Taoiseach", speak to the inflated political egos of a party that continues to feather its nest as if at Versailles, while 420,000 are on the dole. The shame of it is monumental. Let's not do anything to further FF's sense of being "worth it".

[Pauli]

This is a guy who has a long history of exercising a sense of entitlement. He once used Dail editing facilities to edit a Foster and Allen video.

(To quote Marlon Brando's character in Apocalypse Now! "The horror. The horror".)

[greengoose2]

This is a guy who has a long history of exercising a sense of entitlement. He once used Dail editing facilities to edit a Foster and Allen video.

(To quote Marlon Brando's character in Apocalypse Now! "The horror. The horror".)

FFS! Foster & Allen. Only a cretin would edit that sort of bilge. Maybe he was doing it as penance for some grave wrongdoing...

[Pauli]

FFS! Foster & Allen. Only a cretin would edit that sort of bilge. Maybe he was doing it as penance for some grave wrongdoing...

Or graverobbing. (He had to get that "syrup" from somewhere!)

[ellie08]

?!?! Is that why he can't afford a new hairpiece?

Sorry for the low-blow but FF profiticians do my head in!!

Certainly looks that way

[reknaw]

I wonder would the bould Donie be able to make a decent living in the real world, where people actually have to do something like work to get an income as lavish as the one he enjoys?

He is an unelected member of a body that is about as necessary as a nun's tit and has been gobbling deep from a well-filled trough at a time when this supposedly wealthy country couldn't even create a half-decent health system.

Reading his whine helps me to grasp what the saying "he has a neck like a jockey's bollocks" really means.

[loaded32]

From Times Online an article by Stephen Dunne ... "TDs are still living high on the hog".

In the article Senator Donie Cassidy defends the current unvouched expenses system. He insists that politicians are “incredible value for money”. He said Irish politicians’ expenses are “completely in line” with their colleagues’ in Europe and are “just adequate”. Asked about the levelmof expenses paid to senators and TD's he said that "there has been a reduction in what we used to get 10 years ago.”

Asked why members of the Oireachtas should have meals bought for them, Cassidy argued that the private sector offers “these standards”. He added: “No-one makes any money out of politics and if anybody says they do, I would like to meet them".

“Give credit where credit is due. What has been done for Ireland in the past 12 years by public representatives from all political parties has been incredible, the envy of Europe as a matter of fact.”

So there you have it boys and girls. Our politicians dont make any money from politics and are the envy of Europe!!!

You couldn't make this sh1t up. You really couldn't.

I honestly dont know how things have come to this. I'm so frustarted and angered by this idiot and the rest of the incompetent gombeen lying currupt FF ba3tards that are in power that I dont know whether to laugh or cry.

Isnt it just incredible to think that this albert reynolds spin off is actually the leadeer of our Upper house!!!!
Anyone who saw the Late Late Show Debate on the validity of the Senate would also have been flabergasted by the ineptitude of this gombeen. I can recall his comment that "just because we are in a recession, we are not going cutting the numbers of firemen, so why should we be looing to cut the numbers in the senate or the senate as a whole? " - Unreal!!

I have sent a number of emails to him, without reply, asking him to retract and apologise for the statement he made in the Senate in April 2008, calling on the Seanad to endorse his call to notify young couples and first time house buyers of the "fantastic" value that is still in the housing market and that they should buy now as house prices would increase buy at least another 30% by April 09!! I mean , does anyone elese not see the gravity of this statement...and now he says politicians dont make money out of politics and we are fools to think so.....I'm going to email him and ask to meet him as he sais he'd like to meet people who think so.

[birthday]

Are you right there Donie, are you right? - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie
This is the ...... who wanted us to drive on the right hand side of the road...

[Anorakphobia]

I wonder would the bould Donie be able to make a decent living in the real world, where people actually have to do something like work to get an income as lavish as the one he enjoys?

He is an unelected member of a body that is about as necessary as a nun's tit and has been gobbling deep from a well-filled trough at a time when this supposedly wealthy country couldn't even create a half-decent health system.

Reading his whine helps me to grasp what the saying "he has a neck like a jockey's bollocks" really means.

Yeh and to continue the equine analogies, "hair off the tail of a horse"

[MsAnneThrope]

However - with Donie - You have to ask about his association with zoning around the midlands and how situations arose where he held massive lands banks around Mullingar and other midland towns - that pushed the Development plans of these towns to the limits.

Western People, October 16, 2002: From the gang that gave us Ray Burke!

You would think Fianna Fail would display some sensitivity about rezoning controversies post-Flood but the latest indication of the party’s addiction to turning green fields into goldmines for developers comes in the story of how the scenic village of Delvin, Co. Westmeath, will be boosted from a population of 358 to Dublin dormitory town status of 4,000 by the local council’s decision to rezone sixty acres on the outskirts of the town. This was done against the advice of the County Manager but one of the foremost local advocates of the move is former Senator and now Deputy, Donie Cassidy, after Mary O’Rourke lost her seat to the Westmeath Senator.