[satire] Simon Coveney apologises to Brian Cowen

Manic Preacher

Yup, Fine Gael have done it again. Coveney has backed down and apologised over his comments on Twitter. I saw an article taking the p*** out of Coveney.

http://rulehibernia.com/2010/09/simon-coveney-is-a-pussy/

What do y'all think? It's no wonder Fianna Fail keep getting away with it.

FunnyStuff

what a pussy..... until FG man up and grow a pair, we're gonna be stuck with Biffo the Econmy Slayer and his band of rodents.

God this country fukin depresses me.

kippy

Manic Preacher wrote: »

Yup, Fine Gael have done it again. Coveney has backed down and apologised over his comments on Twitter. I saw an article taking the p*** out of Coveney.

http://rulehibernia.com/2010/09/simon-coveney-is-a-pussy/

What do y'all think? It's no wonder Fianna Fail keep getting away with it.

All of this is just distracting from the mess the country is in.
Cowan shouldnt have been in the position yesterday of being an active leader of Ireland. He should have been ousted months/years ago, but instead we are being drip fed the bad news, and a few hours later some other news is out there to take our minds off yet which all the time this government deny the democratic rights of the people of the country in holding of by elections which will surely ensure the end of the FF party and the Greens.
Does anyone care enough about any of this? Do we ****, we're all to afraid.
Afraid of what I dont know but fear is what is keeping us all down, fear of the "markets".

MysticalRain

I couldn't agree more with the article's title.

Ludo

And there goes another person off the list of people I will be willing to vote for in Cork South Central. Spineless.

alejandro1977

Manic Preacher wrote: »

Yup, Fine Gael have done it again. Coveney has backed down and apologised over his comments on Twitter. I saw an article taking the p*** out of Coveney.

http://rulehibernia.com/2010/09/simon-coveney-is-a-pussy/

What do y'all think? It's no wonder Fianna Fail keep getting away with it.

any chance you'd look up what he actually said?

He didn't apologise, when asked if he regretted it he said "I don't".

I presume it's on the 6.01 news on the RTE website. Maybe you could look it up. And then apologise to Simon Coveney.

He was responding to Cowen's apology to the 'people' - so he was trying to put an end to the nonsense. Different to an abject apology.


Edit : You do realise that's a satirical website you're using as a source?

Brussels Sprout

Ludo wrote: »

And there goes another person off the list of people I will be willing to vote for in Cork South Central. Spineless.

Out of curiosity who else have you struck off?

Denerick

My God, how I hate this Simon Coveny man. Like every other Fine Gael politician, ambitious, dishonest, deceitful and populist.

This whole Cowen story was silly season that got entirely out of hand.

RDM_83 again

He's exactly the sort of person you shouldn't be voting for if you want any sort of change in Ireland, inherited his seat from Daddy, who had an Ansbacher account
http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2000/jan/30/hugh-coveney-did-have-ansbacher-account/

Now of course the son could be as clean as a whistle but Irish politics seems in general not to disappoint the cynic

ps not FF, just wish that FG were better alternative

REPSOC1916

That man should've had the balls to stand by his comments.

FG will never get my vote with their spinelessness.

Ludo

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

Out of curiosity who else have you struck off?

Anyone in FF, SF and the Greens.

acer1000

Does anybody think it's ironicthat Coveney above all people should think he's in a position to pass comment on another's expression of his/her views?

Have you ever seen this guy perform on Q & A for example? The guy shows all the signs of being intellectually challenged. It demands a real visible effort for him to answer a question. His brain obviously works at a slow pace. As for his answers, after all that, well there just the usual ole political dribble.

This guy went to Clongowes, then off to Ag College, after that. Wonder why?

I concede that Ahern/Cowan have ruined the country, but sometimes one has to think there is no hope.

Brussels Sprout

Ludo wrote: »

Anyone in FF, SF and the Greens.

You just gave me the idea for this thread

sesna

Coveney merely "accepts" Cowen's explanation.

Cowen's interview this evening was his Brian Dobson moment.

The defensiveness and desperate explanations being offered by FF hacks is very telling.

SeaFields

Coveney didn't apologise to Cowen

Coveney accepts apology

Fine Gael's Simon Coveney, who said that Mr Cowen sounded 'half-way between drunk and hungover' in the interview, has said he accepts the Taoiseach's apology.

However, Mr Coveney said that he will not withdraw or apologise for his comment on Twitter.

He said he did not see why he should withdraw something that reflected what most people who listened to the Taoiseach's interview were thinking.

He said he accepted what Mr Cowen had said this evening 'in terms of clarifying issues' in relation to the interview.

Mr Coveney said it takes 'a big person to apologise when big mistakes are made as was the case yesterday morning and the Taosieach should be recognised for that'.

From here

Misleading, inaccurate and pointless thread

De.Lite.Touch

Is this all Fine Gael can do?

It hasn't the balls to force a general election, the willingness to take up the goverment of the country while its in this mess, or the competence to get us out of it.

Instead, it sets Coveney up as a stalking horse or a distraction or an irritant- take your pick - and he laps it up!

(shakes head)

Woof!


-- De.Lite.Touch

Wide Road

De.Lite.Touch wrote: »

Is this all Fine Gael can do?

It hasn't the balls to force a general election, the willingness to take up the goverment of the country while its in this mess, or the competence to get us out of it.

Instead, it sets Coveney up as a stalking horse or a distraction or an irritant- take your pick - and he laps it up!

(shakes head)

Woof!


-- De.Lite.Touch

How can FG force a general election?

sesna

De.Lite.Touch wrote: »

Is this all Fine Gael can do?

It hasn't the balls to force a general election, the willingness to take up the goverment of the country while its in this mess, or the competence to get us out of it.


-- De.Lite.Touch

Your screen name is to the left of each of your posts. Just in case you didn't know.

mark17

I really admired Coveney for his Tweet and the way FF blamed him for Cowan's
hangover was priceless. After the R.T.E. interview yesterday, Coveney should
have applied more pressure on Cowan to come clean, but the chicken s**t
backed down and agreed with Cowan. My god I have never seen such pathetic
opposition ever, now, Coveney is a FF apologist. I'm sorry but that is the way
I see it anyway......................

gandalf

I love the fact that everyone is calling Coveney weak, a pussy etc. If thats the case what the hell does it make the members of FF. Even the most dim witted must see what a liability from a selfish point of view that Cowen is to their party let alone see what a milestone he is around the neck of a country that is sinking and drowning in a financial quagmire.

The ones who are paralysed by fear are unfortunately the people who are supposed to be leading us.

Can't see how FG can force and election unless they start bumping off a few FF or Green TD's. Maybe De.Lite.Touch you should direct your ire towards the Independents or the Greens for keeping this pathetic shambles on the road rather than blame the party in opposition.

mark17

gandalf wrote: »

I love the fact that everyone is calling Coveney weak, a pussy etc. If thats the case what the hell does it make the members of FF. Even the most dim witted must see what a liability from a selfish point of view that Cowen is to their party let alone see what a milestone he is around the neck of a country that is sinking and drowning in a financial quagmire.

The ones who are paralysed by fear are unfortunately the people who are supposed to be leading us.

Can't see how FG can force and election unless they start bumping off a few FF or Green TD's. Maybe De.Lite.Touch you should direct your ire towards the Independents or the Greens for keeping this pathetic shambles on the road rather than blame the party in opposition.

Well said and I agree completely, however, it's the opposition's job to
criticize everything the government and it's leader does, in order to shift
public opinion towards themselves. FG failed miserably in criticism of the
"hoarse throat after a load of drink" fiasco. They, FG did not make serious
political gain from this and I feel they would be as useless in Government.
That is the way I see it and I'm just an ordinary person in the street, so to
speak..............................

Raiser

Very disappointing fold from this Idiot.

- Its really becoming more and more apparent on many levels that Fine Gael are just an out-of-practice Fianna Fail

DrumSteve

Hasnt it been pointed out multiple times in this thread already that Coveney didnt apologise?

If people would care to read back just a little without posting in haste at a satirical article then this thread will become moot very quickly.

jmayo

It's lovely to see ffers spinning on here as well as out to the press.
For any real objective posters, COVENEY DID NOT APOLOGISE.

Our so called leader did.


As for ffers spin all you want, but even the grey coats know you are screwed come the next election.

Now atny chance this thread can be put to bed.

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Mods can we close this thread please?

mike65

I listened to Simon Coveney on Six-One yesterday evening and he at no point apologised for his tweet, the only thing he failed to do was pick up Brian Dobson on the suggestion that he said Cowen was drunk/hungover when Coveney said no such thing. Coveney was also a bit limp in his failure to advise Cowen to get to bed earlier but that sort of thinking on feet isn't a hall mark of Irish politicians.

Liam Byrne

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Mods can we close this thread please?

I'd suggest changing the thread title because it's obviously just an attempt to make it look like FG did a u-turn.

Laminations

Can a mod actually step in and do their job? Either edit the title or close the thread, if these standards are acceptable I may as well start a thread saying 'Cowen has stepped down'

If someone knows how, report this thread

jmayo

Laminations wrote: »

Can a mod actually step in and do their job? Either edit the title or close the thread, if these standards are acceptable I may as well start a thread saying 'Cowen has stepped down'

If someone knows how, report this thread

I can see a warning coming

Connie_c28

FunnyStuff wrote: »

what a pussy..... until FG man up and grow a pair, we're gonna be stuck with Biffo the Econmy Slayer and his band of rodents.

God this country fukin depresses me.

What depresses me is the fact people still think it's an either or situation in Ireland!! Both FF & FG have more or less the same policies http://www.politicalcompass.org/ireland very few changes will be made if FG get into government.
One of the worse casualty's of the last election was Joe Higgins because the people of his area went out and voted FG or FF instead of for who would do best in Government due to this way of thinking!!

As the saying goes the people get the Government they deserve!

oscarBravo

Laminations wrote: »

Can a mod actually step in and do their job?

I'm terribly sorry for not taking time away from my paid job to do this voluntary job in a timeframe that's acceptable to you.

Thread closed, title amended.