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Enda Sexual Identity Problems

  • 10-03-2011 2:16pm
    #1
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭


    The New York Times has been forced into an embarrassing correction after referring to Taoiseach Enda Kenny as a woman.
    In an article on its website last night, the Times referred to the Fine Gael leader as “Ms Kenny”.
    “The Irish Republic on Wednesday swore in its new prime minister, Edna Kenny, after an election that wiped out the longtime ruling party, Fianna Fail,” the article wrote. “Ms Kenny’s center-right Fine Gael party will now govern in a coalition with the center-left Labour Party.



    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0310/breaking29.html


    Who said the Amricans dont do irony :D


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  • #2
    GSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭GSF


    Its one way to improve the gender balance in the cabinet I suppose.


  • #3
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I'm guessing someone ran Enda through a spell checker, got Edna, and thought "OK..."

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #4
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    The Irish Times says
    one Labour colleague, speaking on the basis of anonymity, suggesting that there may be sexism at play.


  • #5
    PARKHEAD67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭PARKHEAD67


    And the poor man only after taking a HUGE paycut in the National Interest going forward.....This is all he needs.My heart bleeds for the guy


  • #6
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    PARKHEAD67 wrote: »
    And the poor man only after taking a HUGE paycut in the National Interest going forward.....This is all he needs.My heart bleeds for the guy

    Thats the female Taoiseach wage:D


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  • #7
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Reckon we need an embittered FF voter corner in Politics...

    ...preferably one with a key :p


  • #8
    PARKHEAD67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭PARKHEAD67


    johngalway wrote: »
    Reckon we need an embittered FF voter corner in Politics...

    ...preferably one with a key :p
    Certainly not a FF man.OR FG. Or any of em actually. But the wages they pay themselves are astounding.Absoloutely astonishing.No shame whatsoever about it either-"Going forward" as they say.:mad:


  • #9
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    I am waiting for the silly Mrs Kenny interviews ..... with "I can assure you he is all man"

    Cmon -Sunday Suppliments.


  • #10
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    PARKHEAD67 wrote: »
    Certainly not a FF man.OR FG. Or any of em actually. But the wages they pay themselves are astounding.Absoloutely astonishing.No shame whatsoever about it either-"Going forward" as they say.:mad:

    He's a day and a half into the job for Gods sake would you develop some perspective. One of his first actions was to cut his and ministers pay. He now takes home (subject to correction of my memory) €88k after taxes. There are many more doing much less for a lot more.

    This has to be one of Irelands biggest problems, knockers (and not the good kind :D ). Fair enough, if he fails to do what he's set himself to do, then criticize. But when I see threads knocking people before they take a job, or when they're five minutes into it... God give me patience :rolleyes:


  • #11
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    +1 he is in the job and everyone should hope he will do a good job


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  • #12
    jmayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,189 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    CDfm wrote: »
    +1 he is in the job and everyone should hope he will do a good job

    To paraphrase Ming Flanagan the other day "I hope for my childrens' sake he does well".

    Except there are some on here and out there who hope he fails misreably becuase he is not of their party.
    They would rather see him and by extension this country go totally down the toilet because their party is not in power.
    Party before country once again.

    As regards getting Enda mixed up for someone else.
    RTE's nuacht thought he was actor Victor Garber of Alias fame.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=70781613

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • #13
    Eliot Rosewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭Eliot Rosewater


    A standard of contribution is expected in the Politics forum. This certainty does not meet it. Thread locked.

    /mod.


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