Now Cowen is at it

mysons

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said he has "regrets every day" looking back at the economic situation that Ireland has found itself in.

Brian Cowen said he is sorry people have lost their jobs because of the downturn - and sorry that they don't have the same salaries they had two or three years ago.

It follows an interview yesterday by Finance Minister Brian Lenihan who apologised for any role he, the Government or Fianna Fáil had in the lead-up to the economic meltdown.


Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/taoiseach-regrets-irelands-economic-situation-454199.html#ixzz0lI3zkMEg

FF must be really Shi%ing themself if that gob***** said that.

RMD

Hopefully he'll apologize tomorrow for his ****e leadership as well once we entered this crisis.

Duggy747

At this point I don't want apologies, I just want a fùckin' job!

Donkey Oaty

Now that he has said sorry, it really is time that we all move on and vote for him at the next election.

Cheap Thrills!

Hmph, funny how they are all sorry now, now that there is a cloud of volcano dust preventing a hasty escape, should the people go postal...

freyners

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Now that he has said sorry, it really is time that we all move on and vote for him at the next election.

im goin to presume that was sarcasm.

he really is starting to get on my wick, hes done nothing but steadily f**k up this country since he came into power. if it wasn't for lenihan we be handing out the begging bowl to the imf

o1s1n

Does this mean we can paint naked pictures of him on the jacks again?

Atlantic Dawn

If they are sorry they should do the honorable thing and call an election, if we feel they are up to the job to run the country again we will vote them in, unlikely though

Mr Benevolent

Why is he apologising if he didn't cause it?

mysons

When Lenihan say sorry yesterday he kind of meant it but when Cowen said sorry today you just know he is lying through his fcuking teeth

Atlantic Dawn

Confab wrote: »

Why is he apologising if he didn't cause it?

He was at the wheel in Finance under the direction of one Mr. Beragonal Ahern while all the dodgy financial goings on were in place throughout out banks and the economy was built on the housing boom and nothing more.

I think Lenihan has nothing to apologise for, he was handed the budgets of country in bits and now has to make do with the couple of euro left in the vaults.

Biggins

I smell elections coming!

(I wish!)

Oliver1985

If Enda Kenny Gets in we are all F**ked!!! Brian Cowen will Do or first Choice Eamon Gilmore!!!

mysons

I smell the trail of Shi** FF are leaving behind them when the Tree Hugging Party do decide to leave goverment and go back into the forest.

DonkeyStyle \o/

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said he has "regrets every day" looking back at the economic situation that Ireland has found itself in.

Brian Cowen said he is sorry people have lost their jobs because of the downturn - and sorry that they don't have the same salaries they had two or three years ago.

This isn't an apology... he's pretty much saying "well that's a pity, isn't it?"... I don't see enough ownership here to call it an apology.
Non-news IMO

Atlantic Dawn

Oliver1985 wrote: »

If Enda Kenny Gets in we are all F**ked!!!

We are already, have you been around the last month?

Krieg

Lenihan apologises

Most people say "Fair play! I like this guy"

Biffo thinks: Brilliant, ill jump on this band wagon and watch my ratings go up

Reaction: Get ****ed biffo

IvySlayer

Best way to apologise is to do something rather than say something. An election would be a nice gesture with a Labour/FG coalition government.

Fianna Fáil and the Greens can go and **** themselves after that. In about 10 years with a new breed of TDs they can think of running again.

Hagar

I suppose Hari Kiri is out of the question?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

RMD wrote: »

Hopefully he'll apologize tomorrow for his ****e leadership as well once we entered this crisis.

Duggy747 wrote: »

At this point I don't want apologies, I just want a fùckin' job!

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Now that he has said sorry, it really is time that we all move on and vote for him at the next election.

eh, where does he actually say "sorry"? He said he regrets the downturn and refrest the fact the people are well off, but he never actually apologised for it. I think everyone regrets it (except the bankers).

Oliver1985 wrote: »

If Enda Kenny Gets in we are all F**ked!!! Brian Cowen will Do or first Choice Eamon Gilmore!!!

Ah, spoken like a true Fianna Failer. As I said before, in terms of screwing up the country it's, Fianna Fail 1 Fine Gael 1. We await the penalty shoot-out.

MonkeyTennis

Ill use a simple analogy. Say you find your girlfriend/boyfriend (who in fairness you chose:p) has been sh"gging all round her/him, .. lying cheating, hell even thieving and shes ruined your relationship and pretty much your life. It cant be undone really but now shes said sorry .. all well and good


but they still has to get the **** out now

LizT

In fairness at this point I'd say FG don't want to get in. It's not like they can suddenly turn the country around in a few weeks.

Liam Byrne

As DonkeyStyle pointed out, he didn't say "sorry", or admit that it was - to a large extent - his fault.

Resi12

Are they planning on an election some time soon? The coordinated apologies are beyond fishy.

granturismo

Resi12 wrote: »

Are they planning on an election some time soon? The coordinated apologies are beyond fishy.

Maybe he had more than his usual 2 or 3 drinks in the dail bar and was almost at the stage of 'in vino veritas'

ejmaztec

freyners wrote: »

im goin to presume that was sarcasm.

he really is starting to get on my wick, hes done nothing but steadily f**k up this country since he came into power. if it wasn't for lenihan we be handing out the begging bowl to the imf

If it weren't for the entire population of Ireland screaming at Lenihan to get proper advice, he wouldn't have got any, and the IMF would have been here 12 months ago. Thank the screamers.

Kasabian

Mysons , are you a fully paid up blue shirt?

mysons

lonad wrote: »

Mysons , are you a fully paid up blue shirt?

Jesus not at all,I fly a Red Flag my friend.

Kasabian

mysons wrote: »

Jesus not at all,I fly a Red Flag my friend.

No bother just wondering

ejmaztec

lonad wrote: »

Mysons , are you a fully paid up blue shirt?

He could be a proctologist, taking his "sh1t" reference into account.

Kasabian

ejmaztec wrote: »

He could be a proctologist, taking his "sh1t" reference into account.

This place is full of them:)

deadhead13

Yes, but Lenihan apologised knowing full well that he personally couldn't be held responsible as he wasn't in the Cabinet until 2007 and Minister for Finance until a year later. The damage had been done by then. Cowen has no such excuse. He is sorry for our troubles, but is still refusing to accept his role in creating them.

Son Of A Vidic

And this is supposed to make everything better and more palatable for us now? Next he''ll start clicking his heels together 3 times and start ranting "There's no place like 2006."

K-9

Took him so fecking long that its even more worthless than it should have been.

Calibos

Cowens right. It was the Downturn/credit crunch etc that caused all our troubles.
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.The credit crunch being the gust of wind that was all that was needed to blow down the fcuking house of cards he and Bertie built.