Irish politics discussion thread

the irish for "gurriers" is "gaginí"

a mate asked me what "fuck off" was in irish. i told him there wasnt a term like that in irish. "oh youre very civilised arent you" "eeeeh i wouldnt go that far"....

isn't there some variation of "fuck off"...thought there was but maybe I'm mistaken.

feic as

a feican me a feican tu and thats the truth says i to you

lan ar aghaidh leat you cunt

picture taken in Dublin when he heard I was English,
http://completelyinthedark.com/main.php?g2_itemId=11444

Actually he just didn't like Nikons

giant haystacks lookin p good imo

thought this was pretty spot-on: http://circumlimina.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-day-eirigi-saved-dublin

Channel Five

Rosenthal in Temple Bar and Trinity
Collymore talking about 'half measures of the black stuff'
Nevin on 'the friendly final'

the real Irish story.

wait

Garret died?

RIP

Ireland much the worse for taking the other path, always the other path.

You've only just heard? It was on the news over here yesterday!

i've been holed up somewhat this week tbh

"Wait a minute - the Queen was here????"

ha no not quite that bad

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Biggest day for the Offaly Tourist Board since the 2007 National Ploughing Championship.

better than Reagan did anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5qQwbg2Ukw

Tower Records provided protection from the media storm in dublin, in musical style.
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Truth

Obama's accent impressive. He's havin a good effect on enda too imo

LOL

http://youtu.be/yo5zH0Il8B0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5zH0Il8B0

i've really been struggling with working out O'Bama today

he's just enjoying himself tbh, the speeches have all been fun hollywood stuff, it's a nice soft gig before he has to do some work.

Obama says Ireland's 'best days are still ahead'

Somehow this seems like a lie.

depends, really. we've not really given adult politics a sustained run since.....

?

someone older than me would be helpful here tbh

we're due a very rough grind, without much in the way of relief, but i don't know of anyone that starved due to the banks this past three years. at some stage everyone who had a vote in the last cabinet will be rotting wormy pigflesh. you have to concentrate on the little positives.

not politics, but

Thoughts on yerman that went climbing everest and didnt make it?

Kids left behind aged 3,2 and newborn

Thoughts on yerman that went climbing everest and didnt make it?

Kids left behind aged 3,2 and newborn

Metaphor rearing its head there p'raps?

not politics, and always wary of passing comment on people I don't know, but given how many people die climbing Everest you would have to be a bit foolhardy to give it a go, and a bit feckless if you have children to worry about.

how much money is there around the place, really?

Fintan o'toole reckons a lot. It's kind of a byline to his article today, but got me wondering how we might get to the metaphorical cash under the mattress, and what we might do with it.

it is one thing to say there is a load of money lying around, another thing entirely to actually get it into the state's maw.

not even necessarily advocating that- indeed, for as long as our govts seem intent on throwing it into bank debt and current deficits and the like, keep it away from them.

but there must be ways to get it out and spent, get some cash swimming along the main streets again

boardsdeals.ie is a good idea, i suppose, something along those lines maybe, but on a somewhat grander scale. people will allow themselves to spend on non-necessities if the can be convinced they're getting a bargain.

and let's face it, our economy was based on a lot of non-necessary spending. if you weren't a property developer you were a celebrity gardening hairdresser interior personal fortune consultant at the weekends, or you simply weren't anybody, daaarling

brian lenihan dies

hmmmm

maybe should have posted that to the excelsior thread tbf.

i jest, i jest. Kinda.

He lasted longer than most people expected, i suppose.

The decision to keep working was an interesting one.

he had form in denying the inevitable realities.

God, it's a whitewash out there atm. Unsurprising, a young man with a young family passes away, and not in an easy manner- but his political legacy can't be rewritten because of his illness/death. They should probably leave it out of the platitudes altogether.

Too soon, i suppose. I'm probably racking up the irish sb's.

It's incredible that he was making a serious attempt to be FF leader six months after most doctors thought he'd be dead. Can't fault the optimism.

The whitewash is to be expected, and won't last long. I don't know whether he'll be seen in the long term as a decent-enough guy who was incapable of dealing with a set of circumstances beyond the control of anyone in his party or someone who made a bad situation exponentially worse. I get the impression that there was a level of residual respect for him in a lot of quarters, even if only in comparison to the rest of FF.

you're right of course. I'll just grit me teeth for a week.

I think labelling ahern, cowen, lenihan et al as merely misguided or incompetent is possibly naive.

Bertie was a wrong 'un. No question.

I'm slightly more inclined to believe that Cowen and Lenihan were victims of circumstance, to a degree, but they all bear at least some moral responsibility for their complicity in a patently rotten system.

it's all the bank guarantee, that's where the country was brought into it. That's brian's baby i'm afraid

That's true, and will define whatever legacy he has. I'm not really defending him but i have a sliver of sympathy for anyone dealing with the house of cards that Ahern and the bankers left behind, even if they were in a position to do more about it while it was being constructed.

oh god don't mention the c word

lol

Can't believe this isn't working

lol

Any sign that other ratings agencies might downgrade?

not really, reports seem to have it as a bit of a pre-emptive move tbh

course, if markets react badly...?