If Jackie Healy Rae was president

D1stant

Would he have handled the Queens visit well?

What would they have served at the state banquet?

Would there be tunnels built from Kerry to New York and Paris?

If this country had any balls we'd have JHR in the Aras

Zaph

If Jackie Healy Rae was president

I'd emigrate

The King of Moo

No idea, I'd have emigrated long before that gobsheen got the job.

Kasabian

He'd remain as pointless as your questions

The King of Moo

D1stant wrote: »

Would he have handled the Queens visit well?

What would they have served at the state banquet?

Would there be tunnels built from Kerry to New York and Paris?

If this country had any balls we'd have JHR in the Aras

1. No.

2. A faeda shpuds.

3. Yes, but they'd be built in the wrong direction.

mickdw

The idiot. Someone making a fool out of him and he couldnt see it.
I have a better chance of being president than he has.

Xivilai

He'd probably have given the Queen his own customary spit-palm handshake.

Crann na Beatha

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donvito99

Obama and the Queens security entourage would have nothing to worry about...

Grimreaper666

Veles wrote: »

The whole country would be similar to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCHOdyX5HGo

This kind of sh!te makes me cringe.......:o

No1J

At least the roads in the Phonix park would be resurfaced.

Xivilai

He'd give her a ride on his John-Deere

Dennis the Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l28nB_p-0EE

Donkey Oaty

Veles wrote: »

The whole country would be similar to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCHOdyX5HGo

What's wrong with that?

It's great that mentally ill relatives can be remembered in song.

Mr Keek

An utter embarrassment to Irish politics, pure Town/County Council crap on a national stage.

Don't even get me started on the whole Selling the independent vote to the 'What's in it for Kerry' nonsense.

They give Kerry a bad name.

Wolfe Tone

Mr Keek wrote: »

An utter embarrassment to Irish politics, pure Town/County Council crap on a national stage.

Don't even get me started on the whole Selling the independent vote to the 'What's in it for Kerry' nonsense.

They give Kerry a bad name.

Was Tony Gregory an embarrassment too?

fryup

D1stant wrote: »

If this country had any balls we'd have JHR in the Aras

if this country has any brains he'll never be

For Forks Sake

I'll just be leaving this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYbIGmQFLY

Superbus

I would eat my hat.

Mr Keek

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Was Tony Gregory an embarrassment too?

You can't compare the 'Gregory Deal' that helped the some of the poorest communities in Ireland at the time, areas marked by overcrowding, poor housing conditions, high unemployment, and low educational attainment to the Healy-Rae nonsense.

Gregory was a fine politician that not only fought for Inner City Dublin but for social justice on a national level. A fine man that could represent him well and get his point across articulately.

For Forks Sake

Superbus wrote: »

I would eat my hat.

Would ya ate Jackies hat?

RachaelVO

JHR as president?

Jebus wept, what a prospect. Imagine him representing us on an international stage, he'd have to come with a translator!

Wibbs

I'd be in the local book depository building working out the angles.

nyarlothothep

I concur with the OP. Mr. Healy Rae is a highly articulate and enlightened politician who has only done good for his constituency and his country.

D1stant

For Forks Sake wrote: »

I'll just be leaving this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYbIGmQFLY

Acceptance of what? A truck? Corporate like?

smellslikeshoes

Mr Keek wrote: »

You can't compare the 'Gregory Deal' that helped the some of the poorest communities in Ireland at the time, areas marked by overcrowding, poor housing conditions, high unemployment, and low educational attainment to the Healy-Rae nonsense.

Gregory was a fine politician that not only fought for Inner City Dublin but for social justice on a national level. A fine man that could represent him well and get his point across articulately.

I'm no Heavy-Rae fan by any means but that's complete hypocrisy. As you say Gregory fought for "areas marked by overcrowding, poor housing conditions, high unemployment, and low educational attainment". If you knocked off overcrowding and added poor infrastructure, non existent public transport and high suicide rates that would sum up rural areas such as JHR's heartland of Kerry.

strokemyclover

I reckon people are over rating the office of president of Ireland these days. Yes, well done the two Marys for making this a tad more bearable place to live with international gestures but things wouldn't change a great deal even if Corky from Life Goes On was president tbh!

Kojak

RachaelVO wrote: »

JHR as president?

Jebus wept, what a prospect. Imagine him representing us on an international stage, he'd have to come with a translator!

Yeah, but think of the "image" he would potray out foreign. We'd all be seen as fiddle-de-dee irish gombeens who wore tweed hats.

I suppose it could be no worse that what we used to send out before....

alphasounds

Healy-Rae won TV show after thousands of calls from the Dáil: report
www.thejournal.ie
The Irish Daily Mail reports that Michael Healy-Rae won a celebrity television show back in 2007 after calls from the Dáil which cost the taxpayer over €2,500.

RachaelVO

alphasounds wrote: »

Healy-Rae won TV show after thousands of calls from the Dáil: report
www.thejournal.ie
The Irish Daily Mail reports that Michael Healy-Rae won a celebrity television show back in 2007 after calls from the Dáil which cost the taxpayer over €2,500.

OH DEAR GOD!!!! Supposing the presidential elections were run that way. We'd be fubared!!



For those on phones, here's the article

INDEPENDENT TD MICHAEL Healy-Rae has told TheJournal.ie that he knew nothing about the unusually high number of calls that were placed from Leinster House, where his father was a TD, prior to him winning a celebrity television show in 2007.
The Irish Daily Mail reports today that 3,636 calls came from the phone of an elected member inside Leinster House, when his father Jackie Healy-Rae was a TD, at the time of the charity programme Celebrities Go Wild in October 2007.
The calls were reportedly made to a premium number that was needed to vote specifically for Michael Healy-Rae to win the programme. This cost the taxpayer €2,639.
However, the independent TD for Kerry South who took his father’s seat at the last election, said this morning that he knew nothing about the calls and could not have known about them because he was away in the mountains in Mayo competing at the time.
He added that he didn’t even have a mobile phone with him and was completely out of contact, telling TheJournal.ie:
I knew nothing about it.
Unless I am after mastering bi-location everyone knows where I was.
This money didn’t go to me, it went to People In Need.
There was enormous sums of money raised during the course of the week which was put to a good cause.
He said since he learned of the allegations he has been informed that the calls could not have come from one phone inside Leinster House as the Daily Mail claims: ”I was told very, very clearly that nobody could say whose phone they were from.”
The former Kerry county councillor pointed out there are hundreds of people working in the Oireachtas and many phones. When it was suggested he must be very popular in Leinster House, he said:
Maybe I am, I know a lot of people inside there.
Healy-Rae insisted he could not have known anything about the number of calls being placed to vote for him and said he had no intention of resigning his seat in the Dáil in light of the allegations.

The Orb

Mr Keek wrote: »

An utter embarrassment to Irish politics, pure Town/County Council crap on a national stage.

Don't even get me started on the whole Selling the independent vote to the 'What's in it for Kerry' nonsense.

They give Kerry a bad name.

The people of Kerry give themselves a bad name by voting for them

alphasounds

He got is Alibi.
The only interesting part on this story is ,
Who must pay back the money.

Solair

Thankfully, it's never going to happen as the presidential election has a wider constituency than just South Kerry.

Chuck Stone

I JHR not the ideal type when it comes to representative democracy?

Fratton Fred

I just listened to MHR on newstalk.

****ing hell, if that is what we have in the Dail, we are well and truly fubared.

Maybe some of our resident South Kerry folk could explain why they chose him to represent them, on the assumption any of his voters are capable of using a PC that is.

Pherekydes

If JHR was Prez he'd have the Áras auto-dialling Diego Garcia.

wild_cat

I'm still coming to terms with him saying "I cgame up he-er to day frum the boggs of kerrriiii".

To some of the most recognised and revered news agencies in the world when the bail out talks were starting last Autumn.


I'm all for selling the Irish gombeen thing to the tourists but not in matters of international trade, finance or relations. I don't think the man does international though..........

He'd probaly pull us from the EU and have us buying milk from urns in the local market square once again.

wild_cat

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Maybe some of our resident South Kerry folk could explain why they chose him to represent them, on the assumption any of his voters are capable of using a PC that is.

I concur.

Explain yourselves at once.

who the fug

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I just listened to MHR on newstalk.

****ing hell, if that is what we have in the Dail, we are well and truly fubared.

Maybe some of our resident South Kerry folk could explain why they chose him to represent them, on the assumption any of his voters are capable of using a PC that is.

They are making the rational decision that a Healy Ray can be used to get a better deal for themselves and buggger the rest of the country

Liam Byrne

This evasive tosser was on with Anyon Savage and it was enough to make ya puke!

He wouldn't admit that it was wrong, probably thinking to himself that at least someone in Leinster House likes him and he can't criticise them.

Not for the first time the Healy-Raes embroiled in the worst gombeenism of Irish politics.

Waste €3,000 on premium lines and the prat can't even admit it's wrong?

Can we bring the IMF back so that these pricks have no say?

Tipsy McSwagger

This outrage should be known as 'Boggergate'.

stevenmu

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Maybe some of our resident South Kerry folk could explain why they chose him to represent them, on the assumption any of his voters are capable of using a PC that is.

I'm guessing it was the easiest way to get him out of South Kerry.

Solair

If they know the calls came from Leinster House, then they have the extension number(s) too.

It's not the days of wind-up telephones, and the Leinster House telephone system will also have easily searched records of who (which phone) called that number, how many times and when

stovelid

A shaved chimp in a suit, quite frankly.

No1J

Solair wrote: »

If they know the calls came from Leinster House, then they have the extension number(s) too.

It's not the days of wind-up telephones, and the Leinster House telephone system will also have easily searched records of who (which phone) called that number, how many times and when

Then find out who made the calls, 1st make them pay, 2nd why did you do it?, 3rd who told you to do it? 4th there's the door.

horgan_p

Dermot Morgan must be crying in heaven.
Can you imagine the stand up routine that the last 8 years would have given him ??

joe stodge

i think larry murphy would get elected quicker than that pie faced moron.

orourkeda

Zaph wrote: »

I'd emigrate

Howya Ray?

du Maurier

strokemyclover wrote: »

I reckon people are over rating the office of president of Ireland these days. Yes, well done the two Marys for making this a tad more bearable place to live with international gestures but things wouldn't change a great deal even if Corky from Life Goes On was president tbh!

"Becca!"

Mark200

Solair wrote: »

If they know the calls came from Leinster House, then they have the extension number(s) too.

It's not the days of wind-up telephones, and the Leinster House telephone system will also have easily searched records of who (which phone) called that number, how many times and when

All calls that come from the Dail appear as the number '3000'.

But yeah the Dail itself should be able to find out (if it keeps its phone records for that long).