Fianna Fail's Top 100 Strokes - Add Yours

Peter B · 04-02-2012 9:53am

Upward only rent reviews.

Really? What feckin eejit thought that would be a good idea?

Xenophile · 04-02-2012 10:39am

Xenophile wrote: »

Breaking the fabric of rural Ireland, closing Post Offices, Garda Stations, the local pub........anyone over the age of 50 should be allowed to drive home after three pints on a deserted country road. Lazy laws one size fits all.

Great to hear Pat Spillane on the Radio Wide "Country Wide") this morning (Sat Feb.4th.) talking about the demise of rural Ireland. He spoke about people living up the side of a mountain........isolation etc,etc.

How many drivers over the age of 50 died in road accidents on R roads between 11pm. and 4 am. last year?

Interesting to see these figures. Mental health due to isolation, lonliness etc. should get more attention if we want to keep communities alive.

Lazy law makes bad law.

gsxr1 · 04-02-2012 11:42am

SafeSurfer wrote: »

If she was a capable competent person then so what if she was obese. Nobody else in cabinet wanted the department that Brian Cowen described as Angola. She showed some courage in asking for the post.

Would you not like to see a wheelchair bound person as minister for sport? Or someone who does not own land as minister for agriculture?

If someone is competent to do a job does their appearance matter?

Is this some type of joke?

NakedNNettles · 04-02-2012 12:11pm

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Everybody makes mistakes, FF are still the best of a bad lot as a party ,.

No, they're not. they effed up the country, the people demand better.

How come some still live in cloud cookoo land?

dinorebel · 04-02-2012 12:21pm

lastlaugh wrote: »

3. Opening the floodgates and letting lots of foreign people onto our native shores

Then being unable to close them as the natives rushed out.

Liam Byrne · 04-02-2012 12:37pm

dinorebel wrote: »

lastlaugh wrote: »

3. Opening the floodgates and letting lots of foreign people onto our native shores

Then being unable to close them as the natives rushed out.

And deny them their "lifestyle choice" ? :eek:

lastlaugh · 04-02-2012 1:02pm

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Well in fairness you did post that FF had "overseen" the bubble, which - given their mismanagement - is as ridiculous a comment as it gets.

In fairness Liam, I posted no such thing. Can you point out where I posted that like a good chap?

Liam Byrne wrote: »

McEnroe's comment was "you cannot be serious" and bears no resemblance.

"You cannot be serious" & "Are you actually serious" are essentially the same thing. Someone expressing incredulity at something said or done.

Liam Byrne wrote: »

And as I said "haters gonna hate" is as clichéd and unfunny as "blast them with piss" or "yore ma" - mildly funny 10 years ago when it was original, but yawn-inducing now.

I see sarcasm is lost on you.

Now you can get back to this yawn inducing topic.

Liam Byrne · 04-02-2012 1:13pm

lastlaugh wrote:

In fairness Liam, I posted no such thing. Can you point out where I posted that like a good chap?

Sorry - "in response" to, and you quoted the person who pointed out the problem with FF.

If your "haters gonna hate" was merely unoriginal sarcasm towards those who ignore the valid criticisms towards FF, then I apologise for missing that subtlety - it's probably because decent people's concerns are being dismissed by that sickening organisation and their successors.

SprostonGreen · 04-02-2012 1:17pm

Bringing back the rotten Beverly Cooper Flynn to boost their numbers. Even though she was tainted with suspicion of tax avoidance.

AskMyChocolate · 04-02-2012 2:17pm

While most of the deplorable actions of this human garbage have already been mentioned, I feel it would be unfair to let the thread go by without a special commendation for GV Wright.

For those who might not be aware, he's the appalling cnut who mowed down a nurse while drink-driving, breaking her leg in several places, leaving her with a permanent limp, and then fled the scene.

He was fined €900.:mad:

04-02-2012 2:35pm

Peter B wrote: »

Upward only rent reviews.

Really? What feckin eejit thought that would be a good idea?

The property owners and landlords that were funding Fianna Fail.

mikemac1 · 04-02-2012 2:40pm

Raphael Patrick Burke, the others that followed were just mere apprentices

Burke was the master

And brown envelope became a normal phrase you'd hear around Ireland

Department of Justice did nothing at all over him
It was left to Revenue who got him over tax returns. Sometimes it seems Revenue is the only reliable government body we have

gerryo777 · 04-02-2012 2:44pm

TeddyTedson wrote: »

You have to blame the idiots who kept voting them back in.
Far too many uninformed voters. There should be a Fás course that explains the polices of each party that everyone must attend before voting in a general election

Yea, but policies don't mean jack s**t once they get into office as we've just seen....

gerryo777 · 04-02-2012 2:52pm

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Doing nothing to end 30 years of conflict in the north....oh wait

It took a hell of a lot more than a few strokes from bertie & his fellow travellers to end 30 years of conflict in northern Ireland.

tricky D · 04-02-2012 3:02pm

gerryo777 wrote: »

It took a hell of a lot more than a few strokes from bertie & his fellow travellers to end 30 years of conflict in northern Ireland.

Bertie gets too much credit there. It was Reynolds who did most of the work and bertie rode the coattails.

mikemac1 · 04-02-2012 3:05pm

Berties idea of negotiation is sit back and give in to every demand
And then claim he was successful and everyone was happy. Well of course they were happy

He did it with the social partners for years when instead a bit of leadership was required

gerryo777 · 04-02-2012 3:10pm

mikemac1 wrote: »

Berties idea of negotiation is sit back and give in to every demand
And then claim he was successful and everyone was happy. Well of course they were happy

He did it with the social partners for years when instead a bit of leadership was required

It's called being a spineless cnut.

04-02-2012 4:19pm

gerryo777 wrote: »

It's called being a spineless cnut.

It's called buying votes. And very effective it was while the cheap credit was flowing.

ItsAWindUp · 04-02-2012 5:45pm

Xenophile wrote: »

Breaking the fabric of rural Ireland, closing Post Offices, Garda Stations, the local pub........anyone over the age of 50 should be allowed to drive home after three pints on a deserted country road. Lazy laws one size fits all.

What stupidity.

Xenophile · 04-02-2012 10:38pm

ItsAWindUp wrote: »

What stupidity.

In addition to what I posted as you quoted, I invite you to read my later post, posted this morning after listening to Pat Spillane on RTE's "Country Wide" programme. Maybe you will be able to stretch your reply beyond two words without getting yourself banned.

jetsonx · 05-02-2012 3:45pm

another FF stroke:

This time from Presidential Election 2011. Fianna Fail lets on the party was in disarray. Letting on to the electorate that their candidate was Mary Davis but their real runner in that election was FF insider Sean Gallagher a.k.a Baldy Bertie. a.k.a. Bertie Mark II a.k.a The Bagman. The stroke was infamously derailed during the live Frontline show just one week before the election.

lividduck · 05-02-2012 4:18pm

Xenophile wrote: »

Breaking the fabric of rural Ireland, closing Post Offices, Garda Stations, the local pub........anyone over the age of 50 should be allowed to drive home after three pints on a deserted country road. Lazy laws one size fits all.

That has be either an attempt at trolling or just plain stupid!
Drunk drivers cause death and misery, like that oul culchie who drove, drunk, down the wrong side of a motorway and killed an innocent woman.
After you suffer a loss at the hands of drunk driver you might change your mind!
Best FF stroke....letting builders decide for themselves if their properties were up to standard, Priory Hall ring a bell?

telekon · 05-02-2012 5:05pm

Introducing the banale and cringeworthy phrases "going forward" and "we've turned the corner" on an unsuspecting Irish public.

Oh yea, and for using the term "savings" instead of what they were, CUTS! :mad:

mikemac1 · 05-02-2012 5:06pm

telekon wrote: »

Introducing the banale and cringeworthy phrases "going forward" and "we've turned the corner" on an unsuspecting Irish public.

That was more David Brent and the thousands of wannabes who call themselves managers across Ireland

stoneill · 05-02-2012 5:23pm

Increasing VAT when the british econony lowered theirs.

Telling people to "shop around" for cheaper prices and then when they went to Banbridge and Newry and Belfast calling them unpatriotic.

Giving Ryanair the two fingers rather than allow them to create 800 jobs in Ireland.

mikemac1 · 05-02-2012 5:32pm

stoneill wrote: »

Telling people to "shop around" for cheaper prices

Mary Harney, PD's

xflyer · 05-02-2012 6:03pm

Irish Steve covered most of my intended points. But there were others.

Charlie Haughey and his cronies buying up all the land on the route of the M50 before the route was announced.

Benchmarking, it was supposed to keep public sector pay in line with the private sector to prevent people leaving for better paid jobs. Very soon the benchmark bore no resemblance to anything going on in the private sector.

Bertie Ahern claiming he had a lot of generous friends and that he was also one of the most successful horse racing punters in the country, all the while bringing peace to Northern Ireland and being responsible for the boom. :rolleyes:

But mostly for destroying this country economically once again by taking the genuine boom and turning into a property bubble.

Fianna Fail are responsible for keeping this country backwards and poor for most of it's existence. In many other countries most of the current crop wouldn't simply have been voted out of office on fat pensions. They would have been hanged from the nearest lamposts. Corruption is normal with them. Burke, Ahern, Haughey, Reynolds. All of them corrupt and that's only those at the top. We also have the likes of Callely who really doesn't understand what he did wrong. Sure wasn't everyone at it? If there's an honest member of FF it's probably because he or she is too stupid to get away with it.

FF is a blight and an embarrassment to this country. Anyone who voted for them is culpable for the current state of the country.

Mike 1972 · 05-02-2012 6:40pm

SafeSurfer wrote: »

If someone is competent to do a job does their appearance matter?

If that were the case then no.

jetsonx · 06-02-2012 2:14pm

another Fianna Fail stroke:

The deliberate appointment of a dope of a financial regulator - Patrick Neary. Having a malleable character like Neary suited Fianna Fail and their banking buddies just perfectly. FF could now blow the property bubble ever bigger. Having Neary as the financial regulator meant light touch regulation just got lighter.

jetsonx · 06-02-2012 3:45pm

Another Fianna Fail Stroke:

How did €6500 from property developer Owen O'Callaghan end up
mysteriously in Michael Martin wife's Dublin bank account?

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/02/11/so-why-did-that-money-end-up-in-your-wifes-account-mr-martin/

oppenheimer1 · 06-02-2012 3:59pm

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Back stroke.

Charlie was brilliant at it.

I thought it was a back scratch?

AngryBollix · 06-02-2012 4:09pm

1) Liam Lawlor - The mere mention of the name
2) Jim McDaid - The poll topping drink driver
3) Willie O'Dea - The poll topping defamer
4) Bertie Ahern- The poll topping stroker
5) Brian Cowen - The poll topping taoiseach that is the worst leader in the nations history.

jetsonx · 06-02-2012 4:48pm

Another Fianna Fail Stroke:

How did the National Consumer Agency, the agency which advises the general public to spend money wisely give €562,000 to a PR consultancy in just 3 years? Was it because Martin Mackin and his sidekick Jackie Gallagher are both Fianna Fail insiders. Was it because Mackin and Gallagher are friends with a certain Celia Larkin who recommend that Q4 be used?

More Fianna Fail strokes coming up...

cosanostra · 06-02-2012 5:26pm

Heres just a small example of a FF stroke but more than likely repeated all over the state
http://www.highlandradio.com/2011/01/10/tanaiste-says-lyit-land-deal-all-above-aboard/

This land was purchased by the state from a former FF cllr, major FF benefactor and close personal friend of Mary Coughlan Terry mceniff. After it was purchased it was found that the land was riddled in asbestos by the infill used on the site it was also found that the land was very liable to flooding. This purchase took place just before MC was booted out of office! A last stroke of cronyism perhaps..

06-02-2012 5:47pm

As corrupt as they were , it makes me wonder would they be better in office then FG and Labour. Kinda like Microsoft hiring hackers to help with their security.

Paparazzo · 06-02-2012 5:52pm

Shouting down the best idea anyone has had for years to try and tackle binge drinking - Cafe Bars (and i really hated McDowell) because at the time something like 52% of FF td's owned pubs.

Haughey could have his own thread. Buy a stud farm (or get it given to you by a "mate" in the business) and make them tax free.

Paparazzo · 06-02-2012 5:55pm

Deleted User wrote: »

As corrupt as they were , it makes me wonder would they be better in office then FG and Labour. Kinda like Microsoft hiring hackers to help with their security.

Picking one is hard. It's like who would you rather shag, your mam or your dad

jetsonx · 06-02-2012 5:59pm

Deleted User wrote: »

As corrupt as they were , it makes me wonder would they be better in office then FG and Labour. Kinda like Microsoft hiring hackers to help with their security.

No, re-read the posts. All of the strokes of FF are to feather their own nests or those of their friends. Not for the good of the country.

ButtersSuki · 06-02-2012 6:25pm

Surprised at how little abuse Teflon Bertie is getting here, maybe people do really believe everything would be ok if he were still in charge?

Some posters have mentioned this already but for me, this 14second clip sums up everyone that's wrong with Irish politics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsnLyHKWtrg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Apologies, I couldn't manage to get the link to post properly!

jetsonx · 07-02-2012 1:43pm

Another Fianna Fail Stroke:

When the damage of Cowen and Lenihan's bank guarantee first began to sink into the public's conscious. FF spindoctors got to work and pitted public vs private sector workers against each other. Both sides started squabbling with each other over pay and conditions and the media spotlight was taken off the bank guarantee for a few weeks.
This gave FF some breathing space for a short time. More time to devise more strokes.

More Fianna Fail strokes coming up after the break.

jetsonx · 09-02-2012 12:24pm

Another Fianna Fail Stroke:

Here's a stroke pulled by the Hanafin family in 2007.

One morning Mona Hanafin visits her Mary Hanafin daughter in Leinster House in late 2007. However, during her visit she experiences a fall.

A couple of days later she files a personal injury claim against the State.
This case was settled for an "undisclosed sum".

Beneath Mary Hanafin's prim and proper exterior lies a greedy, amoral and corrupt individual. (All the DNA of a true Fianna Failer) A particularly despicable act from the Hanafin dynasty.

http://www.herald.ie/news/hanafins-mum-makes-compo-claim-after-she-falls-in-leinster-house-1624065.html

More Fianna Fail Strokes coming up

MagicSean · 09-02-2012 12:31pm

jetsonx wrote: »

Please help get this list to 100, it should be very easy.

This is the Ultimate list of Fianna Fail's Top 100 Strokes.

Lets gets the list started then...

1) The decision to give excess Irish cheese to people on social welfare and
those "most in need". (Christmas 2010)

I don't get the problem with the cheese thing. I like cheese. I would love some free cheese. If it was a case that there was a stockpile of cheese going to waste then people would be giving out about that.

jetsonx · 09-02-2012 1:02pm

MagicSean wrote: »

I don't get the problem with the cheese thing. I like cheese. I would love some free cheese. If it was a case that there was a stockpile of cheese going to waste then people would be giving out about that.

If your family were getting hammered by cuts to bail out friends of Fianna Fail and then FF turn around and try to placate you with some free cheese, how would you feel?

MagicSean · 09-02-2012 1:58pm

jetsonx wrote: »

If your family were getting hammered by cuts to bail out friends of Fianna Fail and then FF turn around and try to placate you with some free cheese, how would you feel?

I'd feel like I didn't have tio buy cheese next week. I might make a lasagna.

Nothingbetter2d · 09-02-2012 3:38pm

out of date iodine capsules incase of nuclear war.

like that is gonna stop the radiation poisoning. :rolleyes:

MagicSean · 09-02-2012 4:08pm

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

out of date iodine capsules incase of nuclear war.

like that is gonna stop the radiation poisoning. :rolleyes:

Because in date capsules would protect you in a nuclear war. As long as you remember to duck and cover

MagicSean · 09-02-2012 4:10pm

The two biggest mistakes the government have made since I started voting were the sale of the phone network and the purchase of the M50 contract.

Fianna Fail's Top 100 Strokes - Add Yours

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