Fianna Fail's Top 100 Strokes - Add Yours

jetsonx

another FF stroke:

This time from Presidential Election 2011. Fianna Fail lets on the party was in disarray. Letting on to the electorate that their candidate was Mary Davis but their real runner in that election was FF insider Sean Gallagher a.k.a Baldy Bertie. a.k.a. Bertie Mark II a.k.a The Bagman. The stroke was infamously derailed during the live Frontline show just one week before the election.

lividduck

Xenophile wrote: »

Breaking the fabric of rural Ireland, closing Post Offices, Garda Stations, the local pub........anyone over the age of 50 should be allowed to drive home after three pints on a deserted country road. Lazy laws one size fits all.

That has be either an attempt at trolling or just plain stupid!
Drunk drivers cause death and misery, like that oul culchie who drove, drunk, down the wrong side of a motorway and killed an innocent woman.
After you suffer a loss at the hands of drunk driver you might change your mind!
Best FF stroke....letting builders decide for themselves if their properties were up to standard, Priory Hall ring a bell?

telekon

Introducing the banale and cringeworthy phrases "going forward" and "we've turned the corner" on an unsuspecting Irish public.


Oh yea, and for using the term "savings" instead of what they were, CUTS! :mad:

mikemac1

telekon wrote: »

Introducing the banale and cringeworthy phrases "going forward" and "we've turned the corner" on an unsuspecting Irish public.

That was more David Brent and the thousands of wannabes who call themselves managers across Ireland

stoneill

Increasing VAT when the british econony lowered theirs.

Telling people to "shop around" for cheaper prices and then when they went to Banbridge and Newry and Belfast calling them unpatriotic.

Giving Ryanair the two fingers rather than allow them to create 800 jobs in Ireland.

mikemac1

stoneill wrote: »

Telling people to "shop around" for cheaper prices

Mary Harney, PD's

xflyer

Irish Steve covered most of my intended points. But there were others.

Charlie Haughey and his cronies buying up all the land on the route of the M50 before the route was announced.

Benchmarking, it was supposed to keep public sector pay in line with the private sector to prevent people leaving for better paid jobs. Very soon the benchmark bore no resemblance to anything going on in the private sector.

Bertie Ahern claiming he had a lot of generous friends and that he was also one of the most successful horse racing punters in the country, all the while bringing peace to Northern Ireland and being responsible for the boom. :rolleyes:

But mostly for destroying this country economically once again by taking the genuine boom and turning into a property bubble.

Fianna Fail are responsible for keeping this country backwards and poor for most of it's existence. In many other countries most of the current crop wouldn't simply have been voted out of office on fat pensions. They would have been hanged from the nearest lamposts. Corruption is normal with them. Burke, Ahern, Haughey, Reynolds. All of them corrupt and that's only those at the top. We also have the likes of Callely who really doesn't understand what he did wrong. Sure wasn't everyone at it? If there's an honest member of FF it's probably because he or she is too stupid to get away with it.

FF is a blight and an embarrassment to this country. Anyone who voted for them is culpable for the current state of the country.

Mike 1972

SafeSurfer wrote: »

If someone is competent to do a job does their appearance matter?

If that were the case then no.

jetsonx

another Fianna Fail stroke:

The deliberate appointment of a dope of a financial regulator - Patrick Neary. Having a malleable character like Neary suited Fianna Fail and their banking buddies just perfectly. FF could now blow the property bubble ever bigger. Having Neary as the financial regulator meant light touch regulation just got lighter.

jetsonx

Another Fianna Fail Stroke:


How did €6500 from property developer Owen O'Callaghan end up
mysteriously in Michael Martin wife's Dublin bank account?

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/02/11/so-why-did-that-money-end-up-in-your-wifes-account-mr-martin/

oppenheimer1

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Back stroke.

Charlie was brilliant at it.

I thought it was a back scratch?

AngryBollix

1) Liam Lawlor - The mere mention of the name
2) Jim McDaid - The poll topping drink driver
3) Willie O'Dea - The poll topping defamer
4) Bertie Ahern- The poll topping stroker
5) Brian Cowen - The poll topping taoiseach that is the worst leader in the nations history.

jetsonx

Another Fianna Fail Stroke:

How did the National Consumer Agency, the agency which advises the general public to spend money wisely give €562,000 to a PR consultancy in just 3 years? Was it because Martin Mackin and his sidekick Jackie Gallagher are both Fianna Fail insiders. Was it because Mackin and Gallagher are friends with a certain Celia Larkin who recommend that Q4 be used?


More Fianna Fail strokes coming up...

cosanostra

Heres just a small example of a FF stroke but more than likely repeated all over the state
http://www.highlandradio.com/2011/01/10/tanaiste-says-lyit-land-deal-all-above-aboard/

This land was purchased by the state from a former FF cllr, major FF benefactor and close personal friend of Mary Coughlan Terry mceniff. After it was purchased it was found that the land was riddled in asbestos by the infill used on the site it was also found that the land was very liable to flooding. This purchase took place just before MC was booted out of office! A last stroke of cronyism perhaps..

As corrupt as they were , it makes me wonder would they be better in office then FG and Labour. Kinda like Microsoft hiring hackers to help with their security.

Paparazzo

Shouting down the best idea anyone has had for years to try and tackle binge drinking - Cafe Bars (and i really hated McDowell) because at the time something like 52% of FF td's owned pubs.

Haughey could have his own thread. Buy a stud farm (or get it given to you by a "mate" in the business) and make them tax free.

Paparazzo

Deleted User wrote: »

As corrupt as they were , it makes me wonder would they be better in office then FG and Labour. Kinda like Microsoft hiring hackers to help with their security.

Picking one is hard. It's like who would you rather shag, your mam or your dad

jetsonx

Deleted User wrote: »

As corrupt as they were , it makes me wonder would they be better in office then FG and Labour. Kinda like Microsoft hiring hackers to help with their security.

No, re-read the posts. All of the strokes of FF are to feather their own nests or those of their friends. Not for the good of the country.

ButtersSuki

Surprised at how little abuse Teflon Bertie is getting here, maybe people do really believe everything would be ok if he were still in charge?

Some posters have mentioned this already but for me, this 14second clip sums up everyone that's wrong with Irish politics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsnLyHKWtrg&feature=youtube_gdata_player


Apologies, I couldn't manage to get the link to post properly!

jetsonx

Another Fianna Fail Stroke:

When the damage of Cowen and Lenihan's bank guarantee first began to sink into the public's conscious. FF spindoctors got to work and pitted public vs private sector workers against each other. Both sides started squabbling with each other over pay and conditions and the media spotlight was taken off the bank guarantee for a few weeks.
This gave FF some breathing space for a short time. More time to devise more strokes.

More Fianna Fail strokes coming up after the break.

jetsonx

Another Fianna Fail Stroke:

Here's a stroke pulled by the Hanafin family in 2007.

One morning Mona Hanafin visits her Mary Hanafin daughter in Leinster House in late 2007. However, during her visit she experiences a fall.

A couple of days later she files a personal injury claim against the State.
This case was settled for an "undisclosed sum".

Beneath Mary Hanafin's prim and proper exterior lies a greedy, amoral and corrupt individual. (All the DNA of a true Fianna Failer) A particularly despicable act from the Hanafin dynasty.

http://www.herald.ie/news/hanafins-mum-makes-compo-claim-after-she-falls-in-leinster-house-1624065.html


More Fianna Fail Strokes coming up

MagicSean

jetsonx wrote: »

Please help get this list to 100, it should be very easy.

This is the Ultimate list of Fianna Fail's Top 100 Strokes.

Lets gets the list started then...

1) The decision to give excess Irish cheese to people on social welfare and
those "most in need". (Christmas 2010)

I don't get the problem with the cheese thing. I like cheese. I would love some free cheese. If it was a case that there was a stockpile of cheese going to waste then people would be giving out about that.

jetsonx

MagicSean wrote: »

I don't get the problem with the cheese thing. I like cheese. I would love some free cheese. If it was a case that there was a stockpile of cheese going to waste then people would be giving out about that.

If your family were getting hammered by cuts to bail out friends of Fianna Fail and then FF turn around and try to placate you with some free cheese, how would you feel?

MagicSean

jetsonx wrote: »

If your family were getting hammered by cuts to bail out friends of Fianna Fail and then FF turn around and try to placate you with some free cheese, how would you feel?

I'd feel like I didn't have tio buy cheese next week. I might make a lasagna.

Nothingbetter2d

out of date iodine capsules incase of nuclear war.

like that is gonna stop the radiation poisoning. :rolleyes:

MagicSean

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

out of date iodine capsules incase of nuclear war.

like that is gonna stop the radiation poisoning. :rolleyes:

Because in date capsules would protect you in a nuclear war. As long as you remember to duck and cover

MagicSean

The two biggest mistakes the government have made since I started voting were the sale of the phone network and the purchase of the M50 contract.