Category: Fianna Fail

Callely: just part of an infamous tradition

The moronic excuses put forward by Senator Callely may seem unbelievable to most normal people but it should be remembered that he’s a member of the most corrupt political party in the country, a party which is populated by the most arrogant, greedy, unethical and traitorous people in the land.

Why should anybody be surprised by his arrogant and brazen excuses when former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, after failing to convince with several fairy tales to explain the source of certain payments, finally two fingered the people, the law and the country with his ‘I won it on the horses’ excuse.

The infamous Flynn dynasty featured on Scannal last night where we were reminded that Irish politicians and in particular Fianna Fail politicians are supremely confident (with justification) that no matter what wrong they commit they will never be brought to account.

Despite being found by the High Court and Supreme Court of encouraging tax evasion Beverly Flynn continued to deny her guilt.

Padraig Flynn and his wife Doherty gave the following testimony under oath to the tribunal regarding the £50,000 received from property developer Tom Gilmartin some of which ended up in a bogus offshore account in London.

How did you and your wife come to hold this account in London?

P. Flynn: I cannot assist the Tribunal.

Did you ever reside at the address mentioned on the account?

P. Flynn: No.

Doherty Flynn

Did you provide that account?

D. Flynn: No.

How did that address come to be attributed to you and Padraig Flynn?

D. Flynn: I have no idea.

Was the address on the form when you filled it in?

D. Flynn: I did not fill that form.

Was the address on the form when you signed it?

D. Flynn: I have never seen that document.

Was it on the form when you signed it?

D. Flynn: I don’t know, I have no recollection of that.

Padraig and Doherty Flynn are now living in happy and wealthy retirement. Their daughter Beverly is back in Fianna Fail and will properly end up as a government minister or even Taoiseach.

Bertie Ahern is making a fortune out of his Dail salaries and expenses despite the fact that he rarely actually turns up for work.

Why should Callely not follow their brazen example when it is obviously the most rewarding route?

Callely: What the locals think

Some opinions of Callely from his former constituents in Clontarf broadcast on Today with Pat Kenny this morning.

He’s a Fianna Fail thug?, he’s a Fianna Fail gangster and I hate Fianna Fail. They have the country ruined, I’d hang Callely, I’d hang the whole Fianna Fail party, they’re a pack of gangsters.

He should be behind bars for what he done, other criminals are behind bars and it starts from the top.

Fianna Fail: Betraying the Republic

Ryle Dwyer has an excellent piece in Saturday’s Irish Examiner in which in outlines the long history of Fianna Fail’s traitorous behaviour.

It’s good to see Dwyer has changed his views regarding Fianna Fail, for many years he was a staunch defender of the party and its criminal leader Haughey.

He ends the piece with a telling sentence.

In the process the party is not only subverting the Constitution but also betraying the Republic and democracy itself.

Cost of keeping a Fianna Fail prince

Irish Times

Madam,

The Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey, (Home News, August 7th) spent €13,000 to facilitate his recent trip on the Government jet to the MacGill Summer School in Glenties, Co Donegal.

His driver met him to further accommodate his transportation needs. He sees no shame in this and finds his actions easy to defend.

To put this into perspective, one year on the dole amounts to €10,192 (€196 times 52). A few hours of the Minister’s life during which he flippantly charged the public purse at his own discretion cost more than a year’s income of an unemployed person in this State.

A life that comprises week in, week out, scrounging, budgeting and constantly worrying that this is the week you won’t make it.

This is just another action that truly demonstrates the disconnect members of the Government have with the real purchasing power of money and how people are struggling financially in 2010 Ireland. Do they really believe they’re worth it?

Yours,etc,
Caitriona Gleeson,
Gneeveguilla,
Rathmore, Co Kerry.

Finally making the connections

Could it be that, finally, somebody within RTE has woken up to the fact that there’s something rotten in the state of Ireland?

Could it be that that somebody has, finally, begun to make connections between current scandals and the dodgy activities of previous politicians?

On Prime Time last week, in a report on the Callely case, a reporter made the following comment against archive footage of the criminal Haughey.

It’s not hard to imagine where Senator Callely might have learned his political skills.

Against archive footage of the chancer Bertie Ahern the following comment was made.

Senator Callely’s habit of answering questions with a combination of anger and bewilderment as to how the matter could be seen as a serious matter at all may well have been learned at the feet of another master.

A very gullible race

Irish Examiner.

A very gullible race

I’ve read reports of former Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Albert Reynolds recently enjoying “the craic” at Galway Races.

Is this the same Albert Reynolds who some time ago claimed to be too infirm to give evidence before the Mahon Tribunal?

The Irish are a very gullible race.

Charlie Malone
Powell Street
San Francisco
California
USA

Very serious allegations against politician goes mostly unnoticed

Ivor Callely used forged documents to claim almost €3,000 in Dail expenses.

This is the first line in a story by Luke Byrne in the Irish Mail on Sunday.

It’s an extremely serious allegation, even by the very low standards of honesty within the Irish body politic.

But even more disturbing is the very low key reaction by the mainstream media.

There was a very short interview with Fianna Fail TD Mary O’Rourke on RTEs News at One (1st report) in which she was asked some totally irrelevant questions.

Can the Taoiseach remove him from the Seanad? How damaging to politics is Callely’s continuing presence in the Seanad? Should he be thrown out of Fianna Fail?

No questions relating to political corruption, fraud, crime, police, arrest – no anger, no sense of outrage – just bland questions by the state broadcaster to a member of the most corrupt political party in the country who replied as if this was the first time she had heard of such behaviour.

RTEs flagship news broadcasts Six One and Nine News made no mention whatsoever of the allegations and as far as I can ascertain no report appeared on their website.

Today’s Irish Times and Irish Examiner merely regurgitated the RTE Mary O’Rourke interview.

Perhaps Michael Noonan could ask the Gardai to make the case a political priority?

Parish pump politics – Alive and well

From the Attic Archives.

Cork Examiner (?) 15th January 1992

Martin calls for change

Ireland’s financial and economic woes will never be solved until the country rids itself of its ‘unhealthy emphasis on parish pump politics’, Fianna Fail Deputy Michael Martin stated in a hard-hitting address in Cork last night.

Deputy Martin added that the current political, electoral and parliamentary systems waste too much time and need to be radically overhauled if the economy is to thrive.

His statements were made during an address to the Munster and Connaught Society of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants.

Well, we know what happened – the economy is dead but parish pump politics is alive and well.

Fianna Fail: Still arrogantly confident

An event occurred yesterday morning that should have sent shivers down the spine of every poverty stricken taxpayer in this country.

It was announced on Morning Ireland (5th report, 2nd item) that Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport Mary Hanafin was planning to meet the National Asset management Agency (NAMA) to discuss the problems of the hotel sector.

When Hanafin was asked would she be encouraging NAMA to get rid of surplus hotels she replied:

We will be encouraging NAMA not to leave it run for a number of years. I need them to look at it at the end of the year. To take a look and see, area by area, what exactly is required of the market to see how many of those hotels are going to be viable.

I need them to look at it at the end of the year??? To see exactly what is required of the market??? This is direct political interference in NAMA, something we were told would never happen.

Hanafin, one of the most ruthless politicians in the country, is a very loyal member of the most corrupt political party in the country.

A party that’s principally responsible for the destruction of the country, a party that provided the very generous tax breaks to developer friends to build all the surplus hotels now residing in NAMA.

This is the politician who is now going to tell NAMA what to do with all these hotels and there’s not a word of protest from anybody.

This arrogance coupled with the recent blatant appointment of a Fianna Fail hack to the board of Anglo Irish Bank are clear signs that Fianna Fail still believe they are untouchable, that they can do as they please.

There is not the slightest indication that they are mistaken in their arrogant confidence.