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Is it ok to default with FG - so long as you're a FG Minister ?

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    #32
    sarumite
    Registered Users Posts: 2,909 ✭✭✭sarumite


    touts wrote: »

    It looks bad. If he was in the UK he would have resigned yesterday afternoon. Here he'll stick it out and could even be the next Taoiseach after Enda.

    As someone who lived in the UK for a long time, the reality is the Dr Reilly's situation may not have made it into most decent newpapers. Fair enough, if he was a labour minister it would be all over the Daily Torygraph, and if he was a Tory minister there would be several op-eds in the Gaurdian, but the media by in large would have banished it to page 6 of the national news.

    This idea that the UK is bastion of political virtue is nonsense. We only have to look at Cameron's too-close-for-comfort relationship with ruport Murdochs media empire to see that their top man isn't without he his tarnish.


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    #33
    Happyman42
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    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    That is not entirely true. Members of both Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin have advocated for some time now that there was a conflict of interest - although the media have only become interested in this aspect of the story with the news of his debt default.

    Boyd Barrett claims he asked parlimentary questions about it too.


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    #34
    thecommietommy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 564 ✭✭✭thecommietommy


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Boyd Barrett claims he asked parlimentary questions about it too.
    As usual, the ULA are ignored as FF and the new FF - Sinn Fein, are given credit.


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    #35
    thecommietommy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 564 ✭✭✭thecommietommy


    sarumite wrote: »
    As someone who lived in the UK for a long time, the reality is the Dr Reilly's situation may not have made it into most decent newpapers. Fair enough, if he was a labour minister it would be all over the Daily Torygraph, and if he was a Tory minister there would be several op-eds in the Gaurdian, but the media by in large would have banished it to page 6 of the national news.

    This idea that the UK is bastion of political virtue is nonsense.     We only have to look at Cameron's too-close-for-comfort relationship with ruport Murdochs media empire to see that their top man isn't without he his tarnish.
    Totally agree, and not trying to drag things off topic, but let's ignore hiding behind the Americans and bombing a country into oblivion with the excuse of weapons of mass destruction, MP's expenses scandals etc :rolleyes:


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