"I gave up weekend in name of Ireland"

Poly

Donnie Cassidy, a true patriot:


http://www.independent.ie/national-news/i-gave-up-weekend-in-name-of-ireland-says-golfrow-senator-2212429.html

" I take the running of the Seanad very seriously.

We sit three days a week the same as the Dail,"


I think he is a patriot, he has demonstrated how useless the Seanad is.

seamus

This whole thing is a complete non-issue.

Irish Senators were invited by Turkish authorities to take part in celebrations in that country, at no cost to the Irish taxpayer. Why not jump all over it? I would.

The issue of how often the Dáil and Senate sit is something entirely different. They have the life of Reilly in that regard, but I'm with Donie Cassidy on this one - a week off was planned, FG tried to change the rules late in the game when no doubt many senators had other arrangements for what they were doing that week, personal or professional.
It's Enda Kenny playing games, as usual. If he really thought that the week off was an issue, he would have raised it months ago, and not 4 days beforehand.

Fuhrer

seamus wrote: »

This whole thing is a complete non-issue.

Irish Senators were invited by Turkish authorities to take part in celebrations in that country, at no cost to the Irish taxpayer. Why not jump all over it? I would.

you think I should be able to ring in to work and say Im taking a few days off to go and get ****ed up in Amsterdamn but not to worry, my mates paying for it?

Or would my employer be a little bit unhappy about me skipping off

northwest100

i'd wonder what they'd be doing if they weren't going to turkey for a dirty weekend.

John_Mc

To say "I gave up weekend in name of Ireland" is pathetic, and shows how out of touch with reality these useless politicians are.

The sooner we get rid of the Seanad the better!

seamus

Fuhrer wrote: »

you think I should be able to ring in to work and say Im taking a few days off to go and get ****ed up in Amsterdamn but not to worry, my mates paying for it?

Or would my employer be a little bit unhappy about me skipping off

A. The Seanad is on a week off this week.

B. If you rang up your employer and told them that your employer's business partner was taking you away on a business trip, all expenses paid, I'm sure your employer would happily let you go in the interests of the business, even if you are just going on a pissup.

gurramok

I quote another posters signature...

“We have a duty to tell first-time house buyers, young couples with no previous experience, that there is unbelievable value in the marketplace today. It will not last forever… I will remind the House, perhaps in 12 or 18 months, when prices have again increased by 25% or 30%, that they were told this by the Leader of the House on this historic day, the tenth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.”
- Senator Donie Cassidy, April 2008.

Yes, a true patriot leading young people to a hard life of debt slavery.

Poly

gurramok wrote: »

“We have a duty to tell first-time house buyers, young couples with no previous experience, that there is unbelievable value in the marketplace today. It will not last forever… I will remind the House, perhaps in 12 or 18 months, when prices have again increased by 25% or 30%, that they were told this by the Leader of the House on this historic day, the tenth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.”
- Senator Donie Cassidy, April 2008.

They could put this on the Statue that this hero deserves, if only we could find a scuplter who capture his glorious hair.

Sir Oxman

Here he is in pictures and sound on that historic day, the 10th anniversary of the GFA.
Wonder how his swing is?

Raiser

Donie Cassidy bunked off work to fly all expenses paid to stay in a Four Star Hotel and Play Golf and he expects us to be happy about it?

- Why would any Individual, Group or Organisation in Turkey want to spend hand over fist to wine and dine, transport and entertain this particular subset of Irish Politicians?



Why do we only ever hear about the Seanad about once a year and when we do the output is excremental in nature?

- Does the Taxpayer really have to carry the financial burden of this Political setup where the Village Idiot is allowed to stand on a Soapbox and urge an entire generation of unfortunate Victims into negative equity while following some unknown agenda?

How does someone like Donie Cassidy even manage to manoeuvre himself into a position whereby he can carry on like he currently is?

Imposter

I agree with Seamus's first post, this is a complete non-issue.
If this is what Fine Gael have to resort to to try and damage the government then god help Ireland should they manage to get into power after the next election.

If it wasn't fine gael then it's yet another example of the press acting the boIIox and trying to stir up sh1t where there is none! They'd be better off looking into the expenses crap and outing people from all sides and calling for their heads not this popularistic crap of turning this non story into front page news.

PeterIanStaker

Does he not know patriotism is illegal in Ireland?

Expect a visit from the Heavy Gang, Donie.

Raiser

Imposter wrote: »

I agree with Seamus's first post, this is a complete non-issue.

Perhaps to your Neighbours in Linz Austria.

- Here in Ireland People are rightly disgusted at news stories of this nature which we are horrified to read on an almost daily basis. Personally I feel that if Donie Cassidy and his ilk cannot mange to attend the joke that is our Seanad for their useless, time and resource wasting sessions 3 days a week without fcuking off golfing then they are utterly useless in every respect.

Imposter

Raiser wrote: »

Perhaps to your Neighbours in Linz Austria.

- Here in Ireland People are rightly disgusted at news stories of this nature which we are horrified to read on an almost daily basis. Personally I feel that if Donie Cassidy and his ilk cannot mange to attend the joke that is our Seanad for their useless, time and resource wasting sessions 3 days a week without fcuking off golfing then they are utterly useless in every respect.

Well neighbours in Linz or not, I am Irish and lived there for long enough and visit there many times a year to know what's going on!

Why are people so disgusted and horrified by this? The Seanad was on a week off and FG wanted it to sit at the last minute but it was refused! Quite normal behaviour I would think.

Now if you want to criticise the government about the whole Nama, recession, public spending, expenses, church scandal and whatever else you think there is proper justification for then go ahead i'm right behind you, but criticising them for a non-issue is stupid and doesn't help the valid criticisms people have of the government.

Getting invited to events is normal in the world of business and/or politics. Yes it was a junket of sorts but none of this was paid for by the people of Ireland and it was time spent in his role as Senator representing the people of Ireland. If he was to claim expenses for such a thing then you can rightfully be disgusted and horrified depending on any explanations (or lack thereof) he or the government should issue. But until then its a complete non-issue.

Raiser

Imposter wrote: »

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Yes it was a junket of sorts

it was time spent in his role as Senator representing the people of Ireland.

Do you even read it back before you post it?

- The People of Ireland do not deserve to be 'represented' by People like Donie Cassidy and certainly not in 'represented' such a thinly veiled 'Jolly Boys Outing' of a manner.

Hopefully this one will pick up momentum and lead to the creaking Asylum for has-been Politicians that the Seanad has become being shut down.......

Imposter

Raiser wrote: »

Do you even read it back before you post it?

- The People of Ireland do not deserve to be 'represented' by People like Donie Cassidy and certainly not in 'represented' such a thinly veiled Jolly Boys outing of a manner.

Hopefully this one will pick up momentum and lead to the creaking Asylum for has-been Politicians that the Seanad has become being shut down.......

Well correct me where i'm wrong but he's in the Seanad which means he is representing the people of Ireland. I'm guessing he got in there on a Taoiseach's nomination. The Taoiseach is decided based on who the people of Ireland think should govern them! So in a way the people have decided that Brian Cowen should be Taoiseach and the system is so that he can elect some senators. That said another topic for discussion is whether the Seanad is necessary or this system of electing people to the Seanad is fair but that is not the discussion here.

There was also some official business involved in the trip which I managed to read in the article but which all of those people who are horrified, outraged and disgusted seemed to miss through all of their anger!

Raiser

Imposter wrote: »

Well correct me where i'm wrong but he's in the Seanad which means he is representing the people of Ireland. I'm guessing he got in there on a Taoiseach's nomination. The Taoiseach is decided based on who the people of Ireland think should govern them! So in a way the people have decided that Brian Cowen should be Taoiseach and the system is so that he can elect some senators. That said another topic for discussion is whether the Seanad is necessary or this system of electing people to the Seanad is fair but that is not the discussion here.

There was also some official business involved in the trip which I managed to read in the article but which all of those people who are horrified, outraged and disgusted seemed to miss through all of their anger!

Our present Taoiseach was invited to assume the Role by the previous Taoiseach after said Individual rode to Supremacy in the last elections on a wave of utter apathy and plain stupidity on the part of the Electorate.

- To presume that the People willingly invited the Minister for Finance who steered us into to our present Economic misery does us all a massive injustice!

Poly

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/golfrow-politicians-plane-in-near-miss-2214657.html


“Mr Grealish said that none of the 170 passengers or crew were injured in the incident but they were extremely frightened when they realised the danger they had been in.
"It could have been a major tragedy if we had lost the other wheel or if it had given way when the plane landed," he said.


A hair raising experience for Donnie!

Raiser

If the other wheel came off........ :rolleyes:

Thought they were on a flying bike was it?????

Executive Steve

Raiser wrote: »

If the other wheel came off........

........we'd still be waiting two years for another bye-election



:rolleyes:

flutered

Raiser wrote: »

If the other wheel came off........ :rolleyes:

were we not in hard luck ?

joseph brand

gambiaman wrote: »

Here he is in pictures and sound on that historic day, the 10th anniversary of the GFA.
Wonder how his swing is?

I'm sure he worries about the debts incurred by young first time buyers.
And the rest all snigger at the thought of a house with only four bedrooms, and the thought of owning only one property.

Donie you syrup wearing fcuk head!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

DeVore

The real issue is why we arent highlighting Turkey's appalling record of civil and human rights.... but dont let the populace of either country get in the way of political point scoring and legitimisation. :rolleyes:

DeV.