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Contract to print 'shop local' flyers given to UK firm

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    #2
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,067 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Tards

    The boss of the chamber of commerce in Dundalk is Bill Tosh

    There's your problem!


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    #3
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    They must've done that as a joke. I know I would've.


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    #4
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    So did they think that all of the people that have been driving up North have all been part of an elaborate Fine Gael and Labour plan to make the government look bad ?


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    #5
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Laughable - the Dundalk had been (and still does) complaining that business is going out of the town.
    So while the boys in local offices there are crying about this happening - they do it themselves!

    Its simple, one rule for them and another for the rest of us...


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    #6
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Patriotism at it's finest.


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    #7
    IIMII
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    Bill Tosh wrote: »
    "We wanted to uncover the myth that things are more expensive in Dundalk (than the North)," he said.
    But he conceded the decision to go with the Newry printer was an economic one. "It is an open market and we had to take the best value," he said.
    :rolleyes:


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    #8
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    This bunch of jokers have been making me laugh for years, if unintentionally. At least I now know that someone in the place has a sense of humour.


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    #9
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    Reminds me of the story about a group of councillors from a small town who went to Dublin to plead that their local Rail line be kept open, by car!


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    #10
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Reminds me of the story about a group of councillors from a small town who went to Dublin to plead that their local Rail line be kept open, by car!
    They had to because the meeting was in the evening and they couldn't have got a train back. And it wasn't a meeting it was a fait accompli.


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    #11
    Ri_Nollaig
    Registered Users Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭Ri_Nollaig


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Reminds me of the story about a group of councillors from a small town who went to Dublin to plead that their local Rail line be kept open, by car!
    or when the GM/Ford/Chrysler exec's each went to Washington in their own private jets to ask for a bail out.


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    #12
    Biggins
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    They have two sitting TD's and this is the best crap they can come up with.
    (Seamus Kirk and Dermott O'Hern)
    Way to go lads!

    I welcome the next election - pity it's not tomorrow.


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    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Reminds me of the story about a group of councillors from a small town who went to Dublin to plead that their local Rail line be kept open, by car!

    Well, somebody else was using the helicopter.


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    #14
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    ITDept wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/contract-to-print-shop-local-flyers-given-to-uk-firm-1725716.html

    "We wanted to uncover the myth that things are more expensive in Dundalk (than the North)," he said.
    But he conceded the decision to go with the Newry printer was an economic one. "It is an open market and we had to take the best value," he said.


    You couldn't make this stuff up. Genius.


    Unbelievable. The idiocy of it all.


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    #15
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    ITDept wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/contract-to-print-shop-local-flyers-given-to-uk-firm-1725716.html

    "We wanted to uncover the myth that things are more expensive in Dundalk (than the North)," he said.
    But he conceded the decision to go with the Newry printer was an economic one. "It is an open market and we had to take the best value," he said.


    You couldn't make this stuff up. Genius.

    Nice to have something to laugh at. Gob****es.


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    #16
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,212 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Irony, top score!

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #17
    prendy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭prendy


    this made me laugh when i seen it. well done Counciller!


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    #18
    YFlyer
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Reminds me of the story about a group of councillors from a small town who went to Dublin to plead that their local Rail line be kept open, by car!

    from West Cork, I believe


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    #19
    falipo
    Registered Users Posts: 281 ✭✭falipo


    This gives me that fuzzy warm feeling inside, more great publicity for "da town"


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    #20
    thelordofcheese
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    My favourite part of all this is if they'd gone with a local company someone would have spun it as "Wasteful council gives lucrative printing contract to local cronies"


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    #21
    Guy:Incognito
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    I'm very surprised at the independent for leaving out that any EU company is entitled to bid for a tender process in any other state. One would almost think they are being a bit sensationalist.:rolleyes:


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