What should a TD be doing??

[Baron von Biffo]

Was it not the case that FG 'head-hunted' Lee?

Looks to me like an FG/Kenny screw-up. Are they confused as to the role of a TD?

This isn't a Kenny/FG screw up. How could they have predicted when they asked him to run that once elected he'd sit around doing nothing, waiting for his ego to be stroked?

[consultant]

This isn't a Kenny/FG screw up. How could they have predicted when they asked him to run that once elected he'd sit around doing nothing, waiting for his ego to be stroked?

My point is, it wasn't Lee who expressed his desire to enter politics, he was invited to join having been targeted by Kenny/FG.

They obviously saw him as an asset but didn't develop a job description for him that they could live up to. Waste of time, money and effort on everyone's part but initiated by FG.

[Baron von Biffo]

My point is, it wasn't Lee who expressed his desire to enter politics, he was invited to join having been targeted by Kenny/FG.

They obviously saw him as an asset but didn't develop a job description for him that they could live up to. Waste of time, money and effort on everyone's part but initiated by FG.

Ah come on, 'develop a job description.' He wasn't looking to be a junior filing clerk.

[Chrisco]

Policies like providing a proper infrastructure with pothole free roads?

We need government not management. If Lee wanted to be an economist rather than a legislator he should have looked to go on the staff of FG not seek a mandate as a parliamentarian.

Fixing potholes in the road is not a policy, it is common sense.

[Baron von Biffo]

Fixing potholes in the road is not a policy, it is common sense.

Now if we could only have a government that adopted common sense as a policy.

[Chrisco]

Now if we could only have a government that adopted common sense as a policy.

No arguments from me on that one!

[hopi watcher]

Fixing potholes in the road is not a policy, it is COMMON SENSE.

Which probably why the country is in danger of falling into one giant pothole.

[Gael Nua]

On the argument that it would be politically inept to not attend funerals, considering that politicians have to spend so much time in Dublin and therefore miss lots of funerals, it doesn't really equate that attendance is vital for re-election.

Personally when i was younger and more naive and Brendan Smith turned up at me grandfathers funeral i was chuffed for my grandad, thinking he was thought of, it didn't take to much more life experience though to udnerstand what a right eejit i had been.

[gombeennation]

On the argument that it would be politically inept to not attend funerals, considering that politicians have to spend so much time in Dublin and therefore miss lots of funerals, it doesn't really equate that attendance is vital for re-election.

ahaha ahahaha good one - attendance in Dublin.
the bert himself who LIVES in dublin doesnt bother 85% of the time

Ahern misses 85pc of Dail votes since leaving office - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie

does anyone have a link to dail attendances?
I would imagine King of the Gombeens ( JHR ) and the like dont get up to the big schmoke too often.
I'd like to see the figures though.

Personally when i was younger and more naive and Brendan Smith turned up at me grandfathers funeral i was chuffed for my grandad, thinking he was thought of, it didn't take to much more life experience though to udnerstand what a right eejit i had been.

Sorry for your loss.
So you copped on that these guys were using the funeral to further their career?
Fair play to you for that.
The problem is , some people fall for that type of scumbaggery.

[myksav]

Yes



Yes



No. And politicians would not have been welcome.



No.



Balls to that.

Basically the same here.
And the one 'politico' was an ex-politician who was actually a cousin. He came as family with the family, not a politician.

Btw, the one politico that did offer "assistance" did so well after the funeral. About three weeks after, which was tolerable.