what kind of 19 year old gets described as an "entrepreneur"?
the kind that doesn't call himself a gigolo?
have we done the blasphemy law yet?
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
doctor doctor my eye hurts
there's something in your iris
― plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
dr dr my eye hurts
you've been crying excessively because you've discovered your wife is fucking the paperboy. And paid for it.
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
"There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children."
Oh, I hope there was sodomy involved with that guy.
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Inquiry into the causes of the financial/banking crisis to take place behind closed doors.
Genuinely, is there anyone out there with experience in carrying out a political coup? Bloodless if possible, but the alternative will work also in a pinch.
― ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
According to the Irish Times at the moment Gormley is 200 votes ahead (so my vote worked!)
you are part of the problem
― ice cool HOOSicle (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
George Lee resigns from FG and Dáil Eireann
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 8 February 2010 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
GET THEM OUT
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 8 February 2010 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
feel a wee bit sorry for G. Lee... also feel like there's a bit of a messiah complex going on here.
Based on the initial public reaction it seems like this is pretty bad news for FG, which I'm totally fine with, so long as FF don't benefit...
― p-dog, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
inital public reaction is gonna change the more lee speaks. messiah complex is starting to look more and more appropriate- head of various economic policy task forces and committees, about to be offered a place on the front bench next week (and aware of this) but he quits complaining that he hasn't been able to dictate economic policy. to the opposition party he joined 9 months ago.
it's bad news for enda, certainly, but really if this is the extent of the guy's problems then he's a fucking idiot, has proven himself to be style over substance and has lost a lot of credibility for when he does crawl back to the job he stated publicly wouldn't be held for him last year before he was elected.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
what odds a labour taoiseach?
inital public reaction is gonna change the more lee speaks.
probably right. his appearance on joe duffy had me squirming with embarrassment... jd was pressing him on what particular policies/principles had been rejected / ignored by FG, lee refused to be drawn which just makes no fucking sense to me. i do think he is a fucking idiot. kind of beautiful that he's still on leave of absence from RTE! maybe it was all an undercover thing for prime time...
don't know/care enough about FG's internal politics to guess at what this means for enda kenny as opposed to the wider party, but the party line seems steady for the moment, EK expressing presidential "regret" while Varadkar etc put the boot in.
a labour taoiseach eh? that would really be something. definitely seems like it's their time to shine. i'd personally like to see them stop courting coalition partners (so not gonna happen tho).
― p-dog, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah no Lab needs FG. but even though they'll get in (please god they'll get in FFS) as a junior party in a coalition i can't see FG coming up with a Taoiseach. Enda will be gone before then, (though I'm really unsure who's placed to take over) and will be president before 2020.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
never had much time for willie o'dea, but his comment on this was A+-
"George Lee was like FG's bidet- he gave them a touch of class but they didn't know what to do with him"
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I very much doubt there will be a Labour Taoiseach unless they win more seats than FG, which is not very likely.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
While it's a given that FG will have more seats, I'm not at all sure that they'll have a candidate for the top job. At the moment they're not sure that they even have a candidate for party leader to challenge the non-endaty
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
They will have a party leader, and whoever that is will be their candidate for the top job.
I know other countries sometimes see premiers from junior coalition parties, but it has never happened here, so it would be a real leap. We have only ever had one premier who was not leader of the largest coalition party, and even he was a TD of that party. So I reckon the premiership is in FG's gift, assuming they are the largest party in the next government (which may mean assuming that Labour does not coalesce with the soldiers of destiny again).
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
can't see labour breaking at the moment, but there's a serious dearth of ideas/profile/challengers in FG at the moment- I just see Gilmore as a much more taoiseachy prospect. maybe i'm just a crazy dreamer.
would love labour to be the senior partner, btw. FG don't deserve to lead a government, they've been little but a FF reserve outfit the past 20 years.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Mmmm yeah, but no real sign of Labour passing FG or FF any time soon.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe i'm just a crazy dreamer
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe you are.
I'm actually holding out for the new party that Michael McDowell is reputedly about to launch.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
anything that stretches out the margins a bit would maybe be welcome?
alternatively, any party with policies* as opposed to reactions to headlines would be a victory worth taking the week off work for.
* not the green party thanks they're imbeciles..
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Angry Enda is maybe more embarrassing than corrupt Bertie.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
fg=ff basically we are going to hell no matter what happens imo
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
LABOUR TAOISEACH MAAAAAN
get that sad sack face off and let's make this shit happen imo
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
yah like thats how i vote but its not srsly gonna happen anytime soon lets call a spade a spade
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
it will happen. there will soon be no alternative, post-enda breakdown, post FF unelectable.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yah, also kill all old ppl and creepy young ff types
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
plenty tossers in labour too as far as i recall
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
plenty fuckerz generally iirc
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 18 February 2010 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
not voting for fuckers is impossible, so vote them out regularly and at least the brighter fuckers will eventually get the message that you're watching them reeeall closely.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"I am a victim here too"
http://evertb.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/willie.jpg
D'you think if we told the wider ILX about this guy they'd even believe us?
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Who is he?
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 18 February 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
he is our minister for defence, and the govt are fully behind him.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2010 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
He told a local newspaper that a local councillor in his constituency had involvement in running a brothel, then submitted a sworn statement denying this in the ensuing defamation case. Despite being on tape. He's actually pretty representative of his party, the majority member of govt.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I uh...I realise that may be disappointingly bland after the pic.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah this fucking guy
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty much the go to guy in limerick iirc and and a living testament to how ff r just a racket
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
also genuinely a freaky looking dude. just....no
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
remember q's outside my village local of people looking for favours from Papa Willie back in the 80's
― Michael B, Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
'shure idnt he a self taught barrister, fair play to him!'
^^yeah, same old last time i checked in that pub i can never remember the name of
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
When was the last time a FF TD resigned, I wonder?
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 19 February 2010 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Ray Burke? He resigned government and Dáil all in one "fuck the lot of yis" go.
It would be great if it turned out that O'Dea had been carefully promoting his pals in the army, to such an extent that he came back as Generalissimo next week. Then you'd be sorry.
I'm a bit sorry he's gone - I've always had a sneaking regard for him, but there should be no room for perjurers at the top table.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 19 February 2010 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
first step in collapse of government, or just another distasteful episode that they'll get away with (going back to, oh, the aforementioned Biffo, right?)
i'm not sorry he's gone, he's a good encapsulation of FF arrogance, if not the embodiment of all of their worst traits in one person (that'd be O'Donoghue)
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 19 February 2010 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Darraghmac, If you're still interested in a coup, I believe the classic text is 'Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook' by Edward Luttwak. I remember liking it, but I haven't read it for years.
― grobravara hollaglob (dowd), Friday, 19 February 2010 11:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i will keep this in mind. hope willie doesn't get there first.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 19 February 2010 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
now, if only someone could take enda aside and teach him to read as well as he writes, he'd actually stand a chance:
The following is the full statement by Fine Gael Leader, Enda Kenny TD on the resignation of Minister for Defence, Willie O’Dea
“Resigning his position in Cabinet must have been very difficult for Willie O’Dea and a very trying event for his family. However, Willie O'Dea's resignation was an inevitable consequence of his swearing of a false affidavit before the High Court.
“The refusal of the Taoiseach and his colleagues in government to demand any accountability for this behaviour was the reason that I tabled a motion of no confidence in Deputy O'Dea on Tuesday night.
“Now that he has bowed to the inevitable, he leaves behind a cabinet whose credibility is in tatters. Despite knowing the full facts, the Taoiseach and his Fianna Fail and Green ministers queued up just yesterday to vehemently support Deputy O'Dea, to assert that he had done nothing wrong other than a simple human mistake, and to vote complete confidence in him.
“This debacle raises fundamental questions about the Taoiseach's willingness to enforce proper standards of behaviour in his Government. Despite knowing the facts of this situation since December, Brian Cowen apparently didn't even ask for an explanation until the issue became the subject of a newspaper editorial earlier this week. The tenor of his subsequent defence of Willie O'Dea, during which the Taoiseach said that Deputy O'Dea had met his standard, casts serious doubt about this Taoiseach's understanding of the type of conduct that should be required of cabinet ministers. His handling of this crisis leaves a huge question mark over his judgement and credibility as Taoiseach.
“This affair also leaves the government in disarray. The main partner has confirmed that the Fianna Fail code of ethics has been safely passed on to this generation of the party.
“The junior partners, the Greens, have been emphatically and decisively humiliated and have confirmed their role as Fianna Fail's mudguard.
“Finally, the third leg of this shaky stool, the remnants of the PDs, have confirmed that any sense of values that existed when that party was founded have been well and truly abandoned in favour of retaining power at any cost.”
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 19 February 2010 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
what a fascinating country you live in!
― max, Friday, 19 February 2010 14:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i have no indication as to whether that's sarcasm or not max.
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Friday, 19 February 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link