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Michael Noonan: Good For / Bad For?

  • 02-04-2011 12:46pm
    #1
    Firblog
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    Given Michael Noonan's history of polictical / ministerial achievements what jobs do you think his abilities make him a 'good man for' or 'a bad man for' ?

    Here's my two...

    Good Man For: Fighting with Terminally ill women looking for some compensation.

    Bad Man For: Fighting with ECB/IMF to get Ireland a better deal.


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  • #2
    jimmycrackcorm
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    Shouldn't those be reversed?

    He certainly made a mistake in the handling of the HEP C scandal but I think that is more to do with the State's general policy of fighting actions taken against it.

    If you are trying to make a point that he's not achieving much in the ECB / Ireland deal then I do think it is a tough fight and it's not all played out yet. It's too early to call...


  • #3
    Firblog
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    I suppose the point that I'm making is that he was prepared to be a hard man with nearly defenseless/powerless citizens, as per the verbal abuse he heaped on Bridget Mc Cole shortly before her death; something for which he had no mandate, and would never in a million years have gotten a mandate, to do
    Now contrast this with his performance with the negotiations with the IMF/ECB; for which he most definitely has a mandate to be a tough as he possibly could; an he turns with tail between his legs... not such a hard man.

    Just think of the two things his polictical career will be remembered for,


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