[Bottle_of_Smoke]

Anyone see the independent front page today? Its something along the lines for ''FG the trusted party for economy'' (i jsut noticed it on VB last night)

Thought this could easily give a boost to them tomorrow. Everyone who goes into a shop today is gonna be greeted by that headline

[imme]

had to laugh and gasp at the audacity and front of the (previously unknown to me) Sinn Fein minister in the NI Assembly.
She hit the headlines by calling Michael McDowell 'a complete gob****e', via twitter.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...h-2885409.html

She was right but doesn't have the courage and has since apologised.

former cell mates indeed

[Dannyboy83]

Hadn't seen this elsewhere on the forum, thought it would be of interest to some people:

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/todaywithpatkenny/

Data released to the website www.thestory.ie on expenditure by the Department of an Taoiseach during and after the Troika bailed out the country makes very interesting reading.

The figures show that on November 23rd – two days after the announcement of the bail out 276 Euro was paid for an agency chef and for the ingredients to cook a fresh breakfast for the cabinet led by then Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

Other expenses which might surprise some people – 2000 euro was spent on a humanistic counselling course for staff , 4850 euro was charged for a counselling / psychotherapy course and nearly 400 euro was spent on a one day course in “work / life balance” for a senior civil servant. All this while the country was embracing austerity.

On the line Was Harry McGee of the Irish Times who has been analysing the data.

Actual data is available here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...ml#document/p2

[SBWife]

http://christopherfountain.wordpress...club/#comments

Looking for $6.35m, wonder if his Irish creditors will see any of it?

You can see the real estate listing from the MLS and pictures of the place from the blog linked above.

[witsend111]

In addition to fare dodging on the train claims and court cases, Fidelma Healy Eames seems anxious to continue the spin on her own web site and leaflets.

A recent report from the Irish Independent, in relation to non-payment of costs to a Galway plumber, tells us:

"Ruling in Michael Allen’s favour, the judge said;"The fact that the defendant tried to rewrite the contract and force theplaintiff to accept a new deal at less than the agreed price speaks foritself."

Ms Healy Eames had dismissed claims that she was buildinga boardroom in her garage as "a terrible thing to say".

Mr Eames claimed that he had never requested the work onthe garage to go ahead and had put a halt to it immediately on becoming awareof it.

But the judge said: "The defendant's version ofevents is implausible."

Judge McCabe also dismissed claims from Mr Eames that hehad requested Mr Allen to continue the job, stating that a letter sent to thateffect was simply a "set-up letter", which had been sent to set up acounter-claim."

What spin does Fidelma Healy Eames put on a blacker than black situation?

"Ms Healy Eames said she felt vindicated, adding:"I'm delighted with the outcome. The judge dismissed the case against me.And the judge reduced the claim against my husband Michael by a significantsum, more than €10,000."

This is a mixture of narcissism and aggression gone wrong. Because of her antics, the abolishion of the Seanad is long overdue.

[blowtorch]

And today, we learn from the RTE website, that Fidelma Healy Eames'car was seized last month for not having a valid tax disk displayed. (It has to be over a month out of date, or not properly displayed). I doubt the Gardai would seize it 'lightly'.

The spin probably will be 'pressures of work', or 'my secretary didn't take care of it' or something like that.

Sure isn't she a great poster girl for our political class.

[Sligo Quay]

I wanted to start a new thread ''Denis MacShane MP'' but was unable to do in political forum, not enable or something like that, any this is in the news I surpose.Denis MacShane resigned last night as an MP after a damning report that he wrongly claimed thousands of pounds in expenses, the standards and privileges committe recommended that he be suspended without pay and pension for a year.MacShane's own words ''I appreciate the committee's ruling that I made no personal gain and I regret my foolishness in the manner I chose to be reinbursed for work including working as the Prime Minister's personal envoy in Europe.''My point, the politcal culture is so different in the UK, our nearest neighbour, here is so different, Ivor Callely, John O'Donoghue etc etc to name a few, they don't have the dignity or respect to resigned, they put us through painful expensive tribunals of inquiries and then finally go, Michael Lowery TD Mike Wallace TD is still in the Dail, they should be gone, different culture in Ireland.

[Voodoo_rasher]

Yes folks. If you have over a decade of kicking a football for your county (Sligo) behind you,

and you can lay a few blocks, plaster lots of wall for a living , who else would you run for but

the 'Soldiers of Infamy..

A builder running for these lot - how ...original..


http://www.midwestradio.ie/index.php...elections.html

Running for a party which introduced fracking to Ireland and perhaps ultimately your

own backyard , oh the wisdom on his part..

Tragic on the part of that community that he is a likely cert.

[Sierra Oscar]

'Recall Moriarty for 3 months' – Martin

FIANNA Fail leader Micheal Martin has called for the Moriarty Tribunal to be reopened for three months to examine new material, including the Lowry tapes.

In a statement yesterday, Mr Martin also criticised RTE and praised TV3 "inexplicably alone among Irish broadcasters", which played an audio of one of the tapes last week.

Leaving aside the call for a reopening of the tribunal, how is it that not one single thread has emerged on this forum regarding the Lowry tapes? Their emergence into the public domain is one of the most significant political events to have occurred in recent times.

[Le_Dieux]

Couple of things first:

a) I was a FF voter in the past, and if only a certain few, most notably from D3 , were in the dock being tried, I would probably be still a FF'er.

b) I am not sure if this is the correct place for this post - if it isn't, Mods, please feel free to do as You wish.

I found the following on the Indo's page today: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-29150279.html

I despise FG ( one reason being the dirty tricks they pulled at an AGM we had a few years ago - PLEASE don't ask what tricks, as I got a formal apology from our local TD, AFTER me going looking for one, and of course the destruction they are doing to this country, and the lies they spewed out to get into DE ). I however, would have a leaning towards Labour, but NEVER will I entertain them as long as EG is leading, as I deem what he did to Róisín Shortall something akin to treachery.

So, I'm making a plea to East Meath electorate: PLEASE DON'T vote for the Labour canditate, maybe then Gilmore is history, even though he will still get his damn pension, but that's another story.

Who then to vote for? That's the reason am putting this thread here, as I really don't know, my mind isn't made up one way or the other.