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Fintan O'Toole in the IT

  • 23-02-2011 12:53pm
    #1
    Climber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭


    Has anyone read Fintan's article in the Irish Times today?

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0222/1224290515105.html

    I have to say that I agree with him 100%. In fact, I believe that this is the reason as to why he wouldn't run for public office. Deep down inside he knows that the Irish are cowardly, backward, ignorant people.

    We voted back in FF in 2007 when in our hearts and minds we knew that they were inept and incompetent. In 2011 we will vote in FG which are the same as FF. No new policies, No hope, No future.

    My predictions are that this "new" Government will collapse in two years from now. Mortgage debt, high taxes & emmigration will have bitten hard and deep at this stage. Then a desperate Irish electorate will vote in a bunch of nut jobs.


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  • #2
    Buceph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    Ok, so FF and FG are the same, and you'd have to be ignorant or backward to vote for them.

    When they fail we'll elect nut jobs. I presume that's Sinn Fein or the ULA.

    So that leaves who? Labour?

    Everyone who doesn't vote Labour must be ignorant and backward nutjob electing...


    Convenient way to sling mud isn't it? G'way with yerself.


  • #3
    voxpop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭voxpop


    Fintan just moans and complains - what has he done otherwise, nothing. What solutions does he even suggest - none. His ideas of not going with the EU/IMF bailout are the exact policy SF are advocating - so is he suggesting we vote SF ?


  • #4
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    voxpop wrote: »
    Fintan just moans and complains - what has he done otherwise, nothing. What solutions does he even suggest - none....

    A bit like many contributors to this forum, except that his spelling and grammar are generally good.


  • #5
    GSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭GSF


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    A bit like many contributors to this forum, except that his spelling and grammar are generally good.
    he gets paid a large salary for his trouble. Where's our money!


  • #6
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    I like O'Toole. I really do.
    To paraphrase his own words, 'at this time when the nation needed people to stand up and be counted', well Fintan and company just didn't show up.


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  • #7
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Anyone see him on that BBC programme a couple of days ago 'How to blow a Fortune'? - What a smug, smarmy knob - just wanted to punch him.


  • #8
    Drummerboy2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Drummerboy2


    While he does sound so smug, deep down you know that he is speaking the truth, unpleasant though it is.


  • #9
    voxpop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭voxpop


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    A bit like many contributors to this forum, except that his spelling and grammar are generally good.

    Including yourself :pac:


    In fairness to the contributors to this forum, none come close to the smugness and self-righteousness of Fintan.
    Drummerboy2 wrote: »
    While he does sound so smug, deep down you know that he is speaking the truth, unpleasant though it is.

    No-one actually wants to be bailed out by Europe - but what is the alternative. The way Fintan talks, you'd think we were actually choosing the bailout over some other option. All of the major parties are going with the bailout - SF say they wont. So according to Fintan, if we dont vote for SF then we are all gullible, spineless, cretins


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