Category: Fianna Fail

Fuck you – Bertie

“Fuck you” said Green TD Paul Gogarty to Labour TD Emmet Stagg during a hot budget debate in the Dail.

The Irish Independent provides a full list of words that are prohibited in our (corrupt) parliament.

• Brat, acting the brat
• Buffoon, buffoonery
• Chancer
• Communist
• Corner boy
• Coward
• Fascist, fascist minister
• Gurrier
• Guttersnipe
• Hypocrite, bloody hypocrites, hypocrisy, etc
• Rat
• Scumbag
• Scurrilous, scurrilous speaker
• Yahoo

In a way this list makes sense because it reflects a reality that our incompetent and corrupt politicians would prefer to ignore. Take the chancer Bertie Ahern for example.

While the most severe budget in the history of the state was being debated he was traveling around Kerry promoting his rag of a book.

To ensure the comfort and safety of this hypocritical scumbag the screwed taxpayer is forced to provide him with a limousine, driver and two bodyguards.

Nasty boys at AIB jump the gun

Oh dear, what an embarrassing position those nasty boys at AIB have created for our boys Brian and Brian.

Everything was going fine, the banks, bankers, developers, politicians and all the rest of the ruling elite had their wealth, power and positions insulated against the financial crisis.

The entire system, including much of the media, were well into a propaganda campaign designed to convince the peasants that it was all their fault and they must pay the price.

But those nasty AIB boys just couldn’t control their innate greed and have spoiled the party by jumping the gun too early. Now the wealthy ruling elite will have to wait a little longer while Brian and Brian revert once again to pretending that they’re working in the best interests of the peasantry.

A week or two should do it before a fudge can be cobbled together which will allow the AIB boys to get back to what they’re really good at – ripping off their customers.

Little slips that reveal the truth

Sometimes it’s the little slips that reveal the truth.

During a discussing on Prime Time (4th report) about what should be done to help hard pressed homeowners pay their mortgages Fianna Fail TD, Michael McGrath said:

If people feel that there’s an easy way out then why would anyone continue to make repayments?

In other words, those struggling with massive mortgages must be closely watched in case they try to cheat the state out of money.

Meanwhile the ‘easy way out’ provided by Fianna Fail for bankers and property developers is near completion – and those struggling with massive mortgages will be paying the bill.

O'Donoghue: Stupid, angry and embittered

According to RTE reporter David-Davin Power, John O’Donoghue gave a fine speech. The Nine News described the speech as a spirited defence.

I disagree; it was nothing more than an angry, dishonest and embittered rant. O’Donoghue blamed civil servants, the media, the system, administrative errors and the Opposition while heaping praise upon himself.

His pathetic excuse for releasing details of his expenses incurred during his time as Ceann Comhairle on the same day as the referendum is an insult to all intelligent Irish citizens.

Given the massive publicity and media frenzy that had attended the disclosure of my expenses as minister I assumed the same would occur in relation to the costs incurred as Ceann Comhairle.

I believed this would have been a distraction to the Irish public when matters of profound importance to the future of this country were the subject of a referendum.

In my view it was best to have that referendum decided on its individual political merits and that’s why I waited until Friday 2nd October.

I did not attempt to bury the information in other events as some have suggested.

This bizarre excuse is an indication of O’Donoghue’s stupidity. He is, in effect, saying that he buried the information so that voters wouldn’t be distracted while at the same time denying he buried the information.

O'Donoghue: The political class still don't get it

Willie O’Dea’s reaction to John O’Donoghue’s forced resignation was exactly what we have come to expect from this hypocritical Fianna Fail backwoodsman.

I detest people who talk out of both sides of their mouths.

Fianna Fail Senator Ned O’Sullivan was no better. He predictably attacked the media for their ‘lurid’ reporting on O’Donoghue and called on politicians, who are now living in fear of the media, to fight back (Today with Pat Kenny, Thursday).

Fine Gael TD Leo Varadkar also attacked the media and petulantly reminded the nation that he could have made more money by remaining in medicine (Prime Time).

Varadkar’s comments are a reminder that the expenses scam involves all political parties.

Brian Lenihan angrily attacked Eamon Gilmore for his unacceptable actions in bringing down the Ceann Combhairle.

I don’t think it was a good day for Irish politics.

What all these politicians have in common is arrogance and denial. The expenses scam that they put in place results in millions being robbed from taxpayer’s every year either through legal corruption or legal fraud.

The Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 permits TDs to legally defraud the State. An accountant quoted in the Irish Independent gives the following example of how this scam might operate.

A politician can take a train from, say, the Ceann Comhairle’s constituency of South Kerry that costs €72 and make an unvouched claim for three one-way road journeys to Dublin and collect €531, leaving a tax-free profit of €441.

I wonder does Minister Lenihan think that it was a good day for Irish politics when this banana republic legislation was introduced by his party?

O'Donoghue's 'servants' should also be brought to account

The Sunday Tribune staff is to be congratulated for their hard work and determination in ridding Ireland of at least one of the wasters that rule from on high.

The same cannot be said for the so called civil servants involved in the scandal. In a strategy that is becoming ever more common civil servants demanded an exorbitant sum of money for an FOI in an obvious attempt to suppress information that might be damaging to a politician.

There can be no doubt that this was a deliberate and dishonest action on the part of the civil servants as we now know the information was readily available.

These civil servants were not serving the people of Ireland; they were cravingly and knowingly serving the interests of their greedy and arrogant political master.

They also should be brought to account.

Good riddence O'Donoghue

John O’Donoghue is gone and good riddance. No doubt we’re now going to be subjected to a tidal wave of hypocritical cant from the usual elements of the body politic and media.

He was a good man, he served his country well, we must think of his family, he was brought down by the mob; the media were out to get him blah, blah, blah.

And of course there will be at least one journalist who will make the nonsensical, but by now standard, accusation that – we’re all to blame.

The truth is always simple – John O’Donoghue has joined a long list of Fianna Fail politicians, including Bertie Ahern, who have betrayed their country for their own greedy ends.

Lenihan and Fianna Fail have all the answers

Some recent comments by Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan.

On the Rody Molly scandal:

Salaries paid to public officials are unsustainable; they are overpriced arrangements which are being reviewed.

The Minister didn’t say if his own salary or that of his party leader would be part of the review.

On public anger and the media:

People had to get over their anger to make progress. I despair at times at the standard of public discourse about our current difficulties.
The reluctance of some commentators to grapple with the arguments, to go beyond the loaded cliché and the populist jibe, does a real disservice to the public.

Clearly the Minister is unhappy about the standards of intelligence and responsibility outside of the body politic.

On the referendum result:

What I saw in this debate is a growing realisation among the people that junk economics and junk politics from far-left politicians are not going to solve any of our problems.

It’s reasonable to assume the Minister thinks that his corrupt, greedy, arrogant and unaccountable party holds the answer to all our problems.

The pot calling the kettle black

Foreign Minister, Michael Martin strongly attacked Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald on the Pat Kenny show last Tuesday.

The extraordinary duplicity and cynicism of Sinn Fein in this campaign is incredible. In Northern Ireland you have opposed every single treaty since 1973. You portray Europe but anti Lisbon, it’s a con job.

In Northern Ireland over the last fifteen years the EU allocated about €1billion for the transformation of Northern Ireland. Talk to Martin McGuinness and people up there who sing the praises of the EU and you come down here then in the South and take a different stance.

It’s appalling cynicism and appalling duplicity and I don’t believe the integrity of the Sinn Fein position on Europe because I think you’re doing it to advance your own political agenda in the Republic and nothing else.

It is disingenuous to say that we can go back to Europe and renegotiate with 26 other countries, that is not reality and you are dishonest to say so

Appalling duplicity and cynicism, con job, (dishonestly) advancing a political agenda, disingenuous, dishonest – all this from a senior member of the most corrupt political party in the country.