Fall and rise of FF - John O'donoghue

paulgalway

3rd part of the "Rise and Fall of Fianna Fail" on TV3.

What a performance from O'Donoghue:

• During campaign he was given out to by a beautiful girl in Killarney, he said what was the point of "being beautiful on the outside if you are ugly on the inside"

• Still denies that he did anything wrong. It was just opposition settleing old scores.

Sunnyisland

Should that not be the rise & fall ?

paulgalway

realies wrote: »

Should that not be the rise & fall ?

I stand corrected

Sunnyisland

paul galway wrote: »

I stand corrected

No probs But wouldent like to get John o'donoghues hopes up

Tito Ortiz

paulgalway wrote: »

3rd part of the "Rise and Fall of Fianna Fail" on TV3.

What a performance from O'Donoghue:

• During campaign he was given out to by a beautiful girl in Killarney, he said what was the point of "being beautiful on the outside if you are ugly on the inside"

• Still denies that he did anything wrong. It was just opposition settleing old scores.

He is a complete c#nt !!

Plautus

I actually wanted to throw something at the television. The ugly bloody lummocks doesn't have the benefit of being a 'nice guy' underneath it all either.

And talk about malapropisms and general verbal garbage - 'People thought the dinosaurs would be around for ever when they [the dinosaurs] were around, and then they weren't! That theory was disproved.'

Yeah John. Humanity never co-existed with dinosaurs. It really must be like the Flintstones down in Soot Kirry.

Monty Burnz

He's the archetypal Fianna Failure gombeen man. Remember when he promised to introduce zero tolerance policing in the run up to a general election some years back? He presumably heard someone talking about it on tv at some stage. It probably won FFailure a few votes, but of course once they took office it was never mentioned again.

Also he felt his main mission (aside from jetting around to sports events around the world) was to bring pork back to Kerry so he'd keep winning his seat. The Kerry folk seem to be prone to voting for people like that.

bonzos

The man has no shame....the lowest of the low of FF

Dotrel

bonzos wrote: »

The man has no shame....the lowest of the low of FF

Having no shame only gets you in the door of that party.

charlemont

The man represents everything that is wrong in Ireland.

steelcityblues

The common theme throughout the show, was how most of them were upset by the damage done to the 'party', as opposed to the damage done to the nation itself and its citizens.

Maybe there could be a better documentary produced on this shower, but yet there was enough 'give em rope' moments on offer to make this memorable.

It should be shown to be any 3rd level political classes, to demonstrate how it is usually the corrupt and self serving who are attracted to big levels of power.

carrick26

and when O'Donoghue said that he did a full days work in the galway tent and then braggin about the speeches he gave when no one else would give a speech... good programme though, pity it's over....

Plautus

steelcityblues wrote: »

The common theme throughout the show, was how most of them were upset by the damage done to the 'party', as opposed to the damage done to the nation itself and its citizens.

Maybe there could be a better documentary produced on this shower, but yet there was enough 'give em rope' moments on offer to make this memorable.

It should be shown to be any 3rd level political classes, to demonstrate how it is usually the corrupt and self serving who are attracted to big levels of power.

Spot on. The egregious self-pity of Hanafin, O'Dea et al. shows how much they still have to learn if they ever want to get within an ass's roar of government again.

Moaning about how much abuse they got on the doors seems to be attacking the symptom and not the cause: themselves.

GSF

paulgalway wrote: »

3rd part of the "Rise and Fall of Fianna Fail" on TV3.

What a performance from O'Donoghue:

• During campaign he was given out to by a beautiful girl in Killarney, he said what was the point of "being beautiful on the outside if you are ugly on the inside"

• Still denies that he did anything wrong. It was just opposition settleing old scores.

and who says there is no good comedy on Irish tv! That O'Donoghue quote is going to be remembered a long time.