Posted in Bertiegate, Ahern, Bertie, Politics on Dec 10th, 2007 3 Comments »
From the YouTube blurb:
After being asked a number of questions by Ursula Halligan, Senator Eoghan Harris decides he doesn’t want to talk about the validity of the Mahon Tribunal’s investigations into Bertie Ahern’s finances, despite having spent the past week attacking the tribunal on this very point.
For a second or two it seems like Harris […]
Posted in Bertiegate, Irish Society, Ahern, Bertie, Ireland, Politics on Dec 3rd, 2007 3 Comments »
Poor Bertie is also being implicated for indirectly taking bribes from a casino consortium. It would be more accurate to say he is being accused of not taking bribes at all from the casino guys. But somehow this is big news. Bertie also didn’t allow these guys who he didn’t take bribes from build the […]
Posted in UK Politics, Bertiegate, Bertie, Politics on Aug 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’m not a religious person but I have to admit that when I picked up Alastair Campbell’s Diaries in a bookshop recently and read how he felt depressed after his resignation (shortly after the death of the Government scientist David Kelly) but ‘not depressed enough to do what Kelly did’ I found myself uttering a […]
Posted in Fine Gael, Labour, Media, politics/Ireland, Bertie, Ireland on Jun 2nd, 2007 15 Comments »
The general election has produced three general areas of discussion: the failure of Sinn Féin to make any breakthrough; Fine Gael’s 20 new seats; and the commuter belt saved Fianna Fáil. There is, however, one topic that remains in the background - the fact that Enda Kenny will never be elected Taoiseach.
The late swing towards […]
Posted in Irish election, politics/Ireland, Bertie on May 31st, 2007 2 Comments »
We are always giving out about RTE. The State of Us was dire, Fair City risible, and Killinascully is a vacuous black hole of a comedy which wouldn’t even make a crazy old lady laugh.
But what about RTE’s election coverage? It was supposed to be the most extensive coverage ever. The RTE TV studio […]
Posted in Labour, PDs, Fine Gael, Irish election, politics/Ireland, Bertie on May 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday’s debate between the leaders of the smaller parties on Primetime was hard to call. Clearly, there was no over all winner. The format itself seemed to act against it.
We, the electorate are supposed to consider a party worthy of our vote based on an undergraduate style tuss up, where each speaker was determined […]
Posted in PDs, politics/Ireland, Bertiegate, Bertie on May 6th, 2007 No Comments »
“My name is George. I’m unemployed and I live with my parents.â€
This quote is from The Opposite an episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza, the middle aged short man with a pudgy demeanor and frumpy dress sense, not a million miles from our beloved Taoiseach, realizes that every major decision he has ever made […]
Posted in Property, Bertiegate, Ahern, Bertie on May 6th, 2007 4 Comments »
Ok. Let’s try to make sense of all of this.
First of all, the tribunal has been unsuccessful in its attempts to discover details of Bertie Ahern’s separation agreement. The Taoiseach has not disclosed this information, despite his very public statements that he has revealed everything.
Another problem is that the Taoiseach has cited the financial […]
Posted in PDs, Irish election, politics/Ireland, Bertiegate, Bertie on May 5th, 2007 5 Comments »
“I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot.
Would that you were cold or hot!
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,
I will spew you out of my mouth.”
(Revelations, 3:15-16)
In Dante’s Inferno, at the threshold of Hell, lie abandoned the apathetic:- “That craven crew / Of angels who […]
Posted in Irish election, Bertiegate, Bertie on May 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Lovely weather we’re having, is it? I was up at 6:30 this morning to feed littlest his good morning bottle and as I opened the bedroom curtains I was elated to see the empty street bright with early morning sunshine. Not a cloud in the sky, a clear Californian blue. It’s the sort of weather […]
