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  • 26-03-2012 5:33pm
    #1
    nacho libre
    Registered Users Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭


    So one of his greatest fears, something he spoke about several years ago, may come to pass in the next couple of years, and his good buddy Bertie will be largely responsible for it.
    If it does happen, he'll probably comfort himself by deflecting the blame elsewhere, rather than apportioning the blame where it should go- sure hasn't he been doing the same thing in defense of Bertie for years!


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  • #2
    yermandan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭yermandan


    Who?


  • #3
    MickySticks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭MickySticks


    He's the Eamon Dunphy of politics.


  • #4
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    nacho libre wrote: »
    So one of his greatest fears, something he spoke about several years ago, may come to pass in the next couple of years, and his good buddy Bertie will be largely responsible for it.
    If it does happen, he'll probably comfort himself by deflecting the blame elsewhere, rather than apportioning the blame where it should go- sure hasn't he been doing the same thing in defense of Bertie for years!

    What will come to pass? Sinn Féin in government?

    :confused:


  • #5
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    nacho libre wrote: »
    So one of his greatest fears, something he spoke about several years ago, may come to pass in the next couple of years, and his good buddy Bertie will be largely responsible for it.
    If it does happen, he'll probably comfort himself by deflecting the blame elsewhere, rather than apportioning the blame where it should go- sure hasn't he been doing the same thing in defense of Bertie for years!
    Very informative post. I now know exactly who he is, and what his greatest fear is.


  • #6
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Od + Cn * (_!_) + Eg = Eh

    Where,

    Od - opinionated
    Cn - connections
    (_!_) - arsehole
    Eg - knowledge of english language


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  • #7
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I'll always remember him fondly as a judge on the wonderful TG4 talent show - Glas Vegas:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Dojggd60g


  • #8
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Please using civil language.
    Attack the politics, not the person.


  • #9
    Joe10000
    Registered Users Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Joe10000


    I was in xxxxx one Sunday and after he ate I heard him ask for the manager, when he arrived Harris told them he was the food critic for the Sunday independent and he had a few issues with his brunch.

    He had a 20 euro note in his fist and the manager just rolled his eyes and said there would be no charge and the 20 was back in his pocket faster then you could say tight fisted prick.

    One of his complaints was that the sausages were too hot, I'm not joking.


  • #10
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    He got his seat in the senate off Bertie, it is why that place is in dire need of reform, he is the epiphany of cronyism he certainly wasn't put there for ability. Although the McMahon tribunal was horrendously expensive I think history will prove it to be the best money we ever spent.

    As for E Harris, he likes been controversial, that does not equate to intelligence, Dumphy , Meyers and to a certain extent Shane Ross (not a fan) at least back their stance with reason and intelligence. E Harris IMO is a total.....................


  • #11
    AngryBollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    Whoever reads his articles and listens to anything he says is worse.

    Besides, the irish electorate are the people who afforded Bertie Ahern the opportunity to do what he did. Three times.


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  • #12
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    His political positions have shifted over the years, to say the least.

    I read the excellent "Lost Revolution" (a history of the Official IRA and the Workers Party) and there were some interesting anecdotes about what he used to get up to - some of his comrades genuinely thought he was unhinged. He used to introduce himself to people as "a Stalinist" and rant to anyone who would listen about the necessity of rooting out Trotskyites. He went from there to Fine Gael, to the Ulster Unionists, to backing Bertie, to the Sunday Independent.


  • #13
    AngryBollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    44leto wrote: »
    He got his seat in the senate off Bertie, it is why that place is in dire need of reform, he is the epiphany epitome of cronyism he certainly wasn't put there for ability. Although the McMahon tribunal was horrendously expensive I think history will prove it to be the best money we ever spent.

    As for E Harris, he likes been controversial, that does not equate to intelligence, Dumphy , Meyers and to a certain extent Shane Ross (not a fan) at least back their stance with reason and intelligence. E Harris IMO is a total.....................


    Sorry. It was annoying me.


  • #14
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,469 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    44leto wrote: »
    He got his seat in the senate off Bertie, it is why that place is in dire need of reform, he is the epiphany of cronyism he certainly wasn't put there for ability. Although the McMahon tribunal was horrendously expensive I think history will prove it to be the best money we ever spent.

    As for E Harris, he likes been controversial, that does not equate to intelligence, Dumphy , Meyers and to a certain extent Shane Ross (not a fan) at least back their stance with reason and intelligence. E Harris IMO is a total.....................

    Even by Harris' uniquely low standards, this latest missive is batsh1t insane

    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/eoghan-harris/eoghan-harris-what-micheal-martin-might-have-said-to-bryan-dobson-3060505.html


  • #15
    AngryBollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Even by Harris' uniquely low standards, this latest missive is batsh1t insane

    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/eoghan-harris/eoghan-harris-what-micheal-martin-might-have-said-to-bryan-dobson-3060505.html


    Bertie Ahern could do anything, and I mean anything and Eoghan Harris would defend him.


  • #16
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    AngryBollix wrote: »
    Sorry. It was annoying me.

    It annoys me more, I scribble things out and then cringe, it's why most my post use to contain

    Edited by 44leto ..............

    So no need for apologies.


  • #17
    Benny_Cake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭Benny_Cake


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Even by Harris' uniquely low standards, this latest missive is batsh1t insane

    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/eoghan-harris/eoghan-harris-what-micheal-martin-might-have-said-to-bryan-dobson-3060505.html

    In between defending the indefensible, he has his fantasy version of Michael Martin refer to Frank Connolly as "republican-socialist activist Frank 'Colombia' Connolly". Interesting, Michael McDowell said much the same under Dail privilege some years back, Harris would have no such defence.


  • #18
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    Ah Eoghan Harris!:) He is first among equals in the shallow pool of Irish media circles. A bluffer as so many of them are. Fond of quoting from the classics as he thinks that makes him sound intelligent when in fact it's just tiresome and a cloak to disguise utter banality. Lots of people have studied classics,myself included but don't feel the need to use hackneyed quotes to somehow display a certain level of education. In fact for people of the vintage of Harris, the classics were quite commonly studied in secondary school as was Latin. Of course inserting Latin is another favourite of those for whom the phrase "a little learning is a dangerous thing" is never more appropriate. It's the domain of blowhards and bluffers. Marc Coleman is a younger example of this and John Drennan to a lesser extent. Superficial knowledge of a lot of things but a deep knowledge of nothing. However I digress!
    Never shy of blowing his own trumpet but ultimately ; and I can say this for a lot of people in the Irish media, a neck like the proverbial jockey's scrotum. Moral equivocation & dubious ethics are his stock in trade and despite his chameleon -like journey through murky everglades of Irish politics he has found his true home. The Mé Feín Party, a.k.a. Fianna Faíl.
    No ideals,no policies, just bald headed,self-serving, parasitic gombeenery.
    Eoghan is not unique of course.I would put John Waters in the same bracket in the pantheon of the "great" commentators of this fair isle.


  • #19
    JoeGil
    Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭JoeGil


    Unbelievable article.
    Looks like Eoghan Harris fails to realise that the type of drivel that might be considered entertaining at a Sindo hack dinner party is an insult to the intelligence of the vast majority of Irish people.

    In his "others are at it too logic" he conveniently forgets that Mr Ahern was occupying the highest office in the land and his actions will be judged in that context.


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