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Michael Martin - Minister for Foreign Affairs

  • 04-09-2009 9:06am
    #1
    Cork Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 626 ✭✭✭


    Ok here's a completely random thread...

    What do people think of the Minister for Foreign Affairs?

    He's had his good days - smoking ban, dealt well with the teachers strike

    He's had his bad days - failed to pass lisbon, did nothing as Enterprise Minister

    Only I've noticed he doesn't seem to come in for as much stick as other FF ministers and TD's do...

    Anyone care to comment?

    (Mod, if this is too vague i apologise...)


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    You forgot his bad day within FF. Backing Haughey and Reynolds. Long memories...!

    I think he's seen as an affable type and, relative to other politicans, competent, if a bit harmless. He looks clean cut, he is not bullish, and guess he doesn't set himself up as an obvious target in the way other politicians do. See also Mary Hanafin and Dermot Ahern.


  • #3
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Comes across as as a guy who doesn't set himself up in the firing line.

    Even this morning when debating with C Ó Caoláin he never lost the cool, rarely if ever throws in the bitter word which would catch him in sound bytes.

    Certainly rarely paints himself into a corner,always just vague enough to leave an out.

    Smooth operator.


  • #4
    Cork Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Cork Boy


    Ya the general impression i got off him is he just keeps the head below the parapat. Knows where his bread is buttered.


  • #5
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    It wasn't his job to pass Lisbon, it was ours.

    Anyway, his post is hard to screw up, us having no enemies and all.


  • #6
    Cork Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Cork Boy


    We'll see about no enemies after Lisbon 2 gets rejected...

    "Beware Mr Burns, us Germans are not all chocolates and teddy bears you know..."

    PS - anyone ever struck by the amazing similarities between C.M. Burns and C.J Haughy?

    http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:T2ADNeOb3mBwrM:http://www.thecurmudgeon.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/charles_montgomery_burns.jpg

    http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ZJkYgh8cEtBw1M:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dbiQRgavoZw/SJuS6kS9XOI/AAAAAAAAANw/nxSO2jz2TEI/s400/charlie_haughey%2Bfingers.jpg


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  • #7
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    minister for saying nothing and doing nothing for foreign affairs


  • #8
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Cork Boy wrote: »

    PS - anyone ever struck by the amazing similarities between C.M. Burns and C.J Haughy?

    No?


  • #9
    Tigerbaby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Tigerbaby


    Never forgive him for that. Left old men and women out in the cold and wet. decimated the Irish Pub. Stuck a knife in the heart of Irish Social Life. All we want is a warm, dry place to smoke. With a lock on the door to stop non-smokers crashing the joint dramatically coughing and waving their arms.


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