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Enda Kenny gets emotional and cries live on TV

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  • 19-02-2013 7:51pm
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    paddy147
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    Live on RTE now........

    Is it genuine??

    Or


    Is it just a very good act and pandering to the public???


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    Praetorian Saighdiuir
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    Not genuine and not a good actor.


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    3ndahalfof6
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    Pepper has a lot to answer for.


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    paddy147
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    Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »
    Not genuine and not a good actor.


    Wonder did he cry at the bailout meeting and his announcement of that in the Dail?


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    Tefral
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    Live on RTE now........

    Is it genuine??

    Or


    Is it just a very good act and pandering to the public???

    I call BS on that anyway.

    For some reason I can't stand listening to him.

    The only good thing to come out of it is at least there is now recognition and that a formal apology was issued.


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    fatknacker
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    Yes, no one could not be moved by the stories and suffering these women endured.


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    Myrddin
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    I'm sure his wage slip will cheer him up, on top of the 'showing up for work' bonus all the lads will get tonight.


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    robman60
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    I can't believe people are so bloody cynical.
    It was clearly sincere and in no way feigned.

    Some people never stop complaining, jeez.


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    Jaxxy
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    fatknacker wrote: »
    Yes, no one could not be moved by the stories and suffering these women endured.

    This.

    Spend hours listening to the absolute horror stories of some of those women and I'd wager you'd be just as moved and just as genuine.

    Don't like the guy but it was an appropriate apology IMO.


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    Annasopra
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    Fair play to him. I'm not a fan but today he showed grace, dignity and humanity in the apology.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Duckworth_Luas
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    Wonder did he cry at the bailout meeting and his announcement of that in the Dail?
    :confused:


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    Nodin
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    fatknacker wrote: »
    Yes, no one could not be moved by the stories and suffering these women endured.


    ....yet they didn't include 800 pages of such testimony in the final report.


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    _Kaiser_
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    Apology is to be welcomed (and long overdue!) but I don't buy Kenny's "sincerity" at all.. too well timed (as was the theatrical look towards the public gallery just beforehand).

    Just hope they get decent compensation for the suffering they endured now so they can live out the remainder of their lives in some sort of comfort and peace.


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    JonathanAnon
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    I tell you what was annoying.. The TD's mobile phones a) going off and b) interfering with the mics when he was trying to speak... Sister Frances Bernadette would have beaten the crap out of them for that..


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    kidneyfan
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    Nodin wrote: »
    ....yet they didn't include 800 pages of such testimony in the final report.
    That isn't Enda Kenny's fault. His only fault is that he was naive enough to trust an FFer.


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    yosser hughes
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    Wonder did he cry at the bailout meeting and his announcement of that in the Dail?

    What are you on about?


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    marialouise
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    I started welling up just about a second before he cried. But if it was a rehearsed speech and he knew that bit was coming, if it was me I probably wouldn't have cried. I don't think he faked it. The mobile phones WERE annoying!


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    Lone Stone
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    he didnt cry at all what the hell are you lot on about, he coughed near the end.


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    paddy147
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    Kaiser2000 wrote: »
    Apology is to be welcomed (and long overdue!) but I don't buy Kenny's "sincerity" at all.. too well timed (as was the theatrical look towards the public gallery just beforehand).

    Just hope they get decent compensation for the suffering they endured now so they can live out the remainder of their lives in some sort of comfort and peace.


    So you dont think it was genuine then?


    Wonder what he cries about next so?


    I wouldnt be surprised if someone has placed a bet with paddy Power for what he will cry for and cry over next?????


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    Myrddin
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    So you dont think it was genuine then?

    He's a politician, of course not


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    _Kaiser_
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    So you dont think it was genuine then?


    Wonder what he cries about next so?


    I wouldnt be surprised if someone has placed a bet with paddy Power for what he will cry for and cry over next?????

    I think he was well prepared .. in fact just as he looked up I could easily imagine words on the page like..

    [look towards public gallery and pause for 3 seconds]

    Maybe I'm wrong, but having seen Kenny's public "performances" on almost a daily basis for the last few years I just don't buy it.


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    mikom
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    paddy147 wrote: »
    Enda Kenny gets emotional and cries live on TV

    Live on RTE now........

    Is it genuine??

    Or


    Is it just a very good act and pandering to the public???

    That was his cum face.


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    Celly Smunt
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    Anyone who thinks it was genuine needs their head checked.Yes the experiences of these women has been horrendous and if anything Fianna Fail should be the party apologising.But the likelihood is,sadly,that Enda Kenny possibly didn't even write the speech personally.


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    hawkelady
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    If Kenny was genuinly upset and cried , why did he wait til now to do it. He was asked about the laundries nearly on a daily basis for the last week or so and there was no emotion. I say it's for the cameras and the auld ones.
    Inda might get a part in pitch perfect 2 the way he's going!


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    hames
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    This kind of embittered cynicism is very sad.

    I believe the Taoiseach spoke humbly and with sincerity. He is not a man to show his emotions, and often comes across as very rehearsed, but that was not rehearsed. He was visibly trying to avoid emotion. Accounts of his visit to the London ex Magdalene women say he spent three hours with them on the weekend and cried with them, listening to their stories.

    Such cynicism that the Taoiseach could find this emotional borders on a belittlement of the scale of what happened.

    As a Catholic I can only wish some senior figures in the Church would show similar sincerity and ask these women for their forgiveness.


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    HondaSami
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    He seemed genuine to me, it is an emotional story and he has spoken to some of the women so he knows what it was like for them.
    I know we all like to have a go at politicians but maybe this time he is acting as a concerned citizen rather than leader of the country.


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    mikom
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    ♫

    I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
    The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south
    And now you dare to look me in the eye
    Those crocodile tears are what you cry
    It's a genuine problem, you won't try
    To work it out at all you just pass it by, pass it by


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    fatknacker
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    Nodin wrote: »
    ....yet they didn't include 800 pages of such testimony in the final report.

    That doesn't mean he doesn't feel genuine remorse from what he has heard. He is a person first and listening to the first hand accounts from the survivors can only naturally provoke the same feelings as the Ryan and Murphy reports to anyone who has had the displeasure of reading them.


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    Myrddin
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    To be fair to him, he's not a robot. No doubt he feels the emotions involved in this terrible & tragic story.

    However, I'd be very surprised if this speech wasn't handed to him pre-written by a speech writer. I'm sure he read through it numerous times before it made it to being live on tv. I wouldn't buy into the crying thing at all


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    Gosub
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    Only fair really. He makes me cry every time I see him on TV.


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    KittyChai
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    Hmmmm Fine Gael are struggling in the popularity polls! He saw what shedding a few correctly timed tears did for Obama and took a leaf outta his book!!


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