Enda in Japan

Hitchens

He seems to have made quite a good impression on the Japanese. The ban on Irish beef to be lifted and Enda has invited the Crown Prince to Ireland for a visit.

Credit where it's due!

For Forks Sake

Hitchens wrote: »

He seems to have made quite a good impression on the Japanese. The ban on Irish beef to be lifted and Enda has invited the Crown Prince to Ireland for a visit.

Credit where it's due!

Someone's being positive!! BURN HIM!!

Jonny Blaze

:pac:

AnonoBoy

Enda vs. Mothra

Who will survive this epic monster battle?

Duff

How long until Godzilla shows up down the Docklands?

Sir Osis of Liver.

Are orchestras in Japan conducted with knife and fork?

He'll come back as.... Radioactive Man

dodderangler

Duff wrote: »

How long until Godzilla shows up down the Docklands?

Plenty of godzillas down at the docks most weekends pukin and the Godzilla mates holding their hair back

StaticNoise

Relevant.

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

/notaracist
/mypartnerisfromthere

tayto lover

Crown Prince meets Clown Prince.

He did well getting the meat ban lifted in fairness. Credit where its due.

Sir Osis of Liver.

rarnes1 wrote: »

He'll come back as.... Radioactive Man

Nah,just a bit disorientated id say.

My name is URL

I think Simon Coveney is the man people should be saying well done to here tbh. Probably the best minister in the Dail.

irishfeen

My name is URL wrote: »

I think Simon Coveney is the man people should be saying well done to here tbh. Probably the best minister in the Dail.

Ooooh big statement there ... He is a fine minister though your right - probably a future leader of Fine Gael too. Would put Michael Noonan above him at the minute though.

L-M

He actually reminded me off Father Ted Crilly watching on the news yesterday. The awkward posture and odd smiling head nod of ignorance.

Fr_Dougal

Hitchens wrote: »

He seems to have made quite a good impression on the Japanese. The ban on Irish beef to be lifted and Enda has invited the Crown Prince to Ireland for a visit.

Credit where it's due!

There's no credit due here.

Irish beef had the same risk status as French beef, yet the French had their ban lifted back in FEBRUARY.

wendell borton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZzTpjh-NsQ

Links234

Damn, I really want to go back to Japan, awesome place and I miss it

Sorry I've nothing to say on the topic really, just chiming in to say how awesome Japan is.

power101

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

There's no credit due here.

Irish beef had the same risk status as French beef, yet the French had their ban lifted back in FEBRUARY.

If anything they delayed the deal until they were in Japan for the trade mission to show a good result and actually cost 10 million in lost sales

irishfeen

power101 wrote: »

If anything they delayed the deal until they were in Japan for the trade mission to show a good result and actually cost 10 million in lost sales

Direct dealings with Japanese companies/authorities via the trade mission with the Taoiseach/Minister will probably net a lot bigger revenue in the long run then if the deal was just announced as a side issue with the minister/Taoiseach in Dublin.

crockholm

I wonder will he bring back a pair of used schoolgirl panties as a souvenir,and when they all get drunk they can put them on michael d's head when he passes out.

Ruu

Hope he brings back a nice cultural gift! I wonder what our cultural advisor left with Japan. :P

padd b1975

power101 wrote: »

If anything they delayed the deal until they were in Japan for the trade mission to show a good result and actually cost 10 million in lost sales

Of course you have some evidence to back this up?

mad muffin

rarnes1 wrote: »

He'll come back as.... Radioactive Man

Yes. Hopefully. They'll give him a good long tour of Fückyouseamus

power101

padd b1975 wrote: »

Of course you have some evidence to back this up?

The Japanese relaxed the importation of beef at the end of 2012 beginning of 2013 from the USA, France and the Netherlands to make up for the lost beef from Brazil after the outbreak of Mad cow disease. Why didn't Ireland push to be included at that time.

Vincent Vega

Did that thing where you click into a thread having only sorta half read the title and ended up feeling disappointed.

Now it's alright.

kowloon

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Enda vs. Mothra

Who will survive this epic monster battle?

The dawn of Zinthar is at hand!

camel jockey

power101 wrote: »

The Japanese relaxed the importation of beef at the end of 2012 beginning of 2013 from the USA, France and the Netherlands to make up for the lost beef from Brazil after the outbreak of Mad cow disease. Why didn't Ireland push to be included at that time.

Quite a jump between this and your previous comment. So no evidence then...:rolleyes:

Fr_Dougal

irishfeen wrote: »

Direct dealings with Japanese companies/authorities via the trade mission with the Taoiseach/Minister will probably net a lot bigger revenue in the long run then if the deal was just announced as a side issue with the minister/Taoiseach in Dublin.

Of course you have evidence to back this up?

irishfeen

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Of course you have evidence to back this up?

The "probably" kind of gave that away mate - it was my opinion :rolleyes:

Lapin

tayto lover wrote: »

He did well getting the meat ban lifted in fairness.

I'd love for Enda to come and visit my missus.

She's a vegetarian and won't allow meat in the house

OiOshawott

Enda'll be a weaboo before we know it.

heffomike54

Another state visit that will probably cost us a bomb! Great move!

suicide_circus

Lapin wrote: »

I'd love for Enda to come and visit my missus.

She's a vegetarian and won't allow meat in the house

turn in your man card and get out

circadian

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Are orchestras in Japan conducted with knife and fork?

I'm sorry I need clarification on this Did you mean to type fork or folk?

TheGoldenAges

Bring back Godzilla Enda

porsche959

Irish beef isn't bad but the Japanese kobe variety is reputedly the best in the world.

Mint Aero

Did y'is see Epic Endas Troika golf joke. Crikey he's a hoot and a hollar that fella :pac:

Fr_Dougal

Mint Aero wrote: »

Did y'is see Epic Endas Troika golf joke. Crikey he's a hoot and a hollar that fella :pac:

I hear he cured a load of lepers over in Mayo and turned bread into Toblerones.

General General

Tell him to bring us all a stick of rock.

Japanese government bringing in some mad 'official secrets' legislation, I'm sure Enda had a word.

Still, though, the beef thing is a long overdue coup. Fair play that he didn't f`ck up the work of many (some?) behind the scenes diplomats with an 'off the cuff' suggestion 'that just occurred to him'.

Jesus, I've just had a flashback to Mehole Martin 'doing' a Chinese accent.

NuckingFacker

He would go down well there, he always struck me as a bit of a japs-eye, the big mallet headed mayo mug. The day he left teaching was the day he reached too high imo. I've much the same regard for Gilmore.

Red Kev

Hitchens wrote: »

He seems to have made quite a good impression on the Japanese. The ban on Irish beef to be lifted and Enda has invited the Crown Prince to Ireland for a visit.

Credit where it's due!

Enda had nothing to do with this, it's been worked on for months, sometimes years beforehand, both the beef deal and the official invitation, that's how trade deals and official visits work. More to do with the Civil Service than the Government.

Strange how the Irish Beef ban wasn't lifted earlier, not sure if FG or the Govt can explain that one.

General General

Red Kev wrote: »

Enda had nothing to do with this, it's been worked on for months, sometimes years beforehand, both the beef deal and the official invitation, that's how trade deals and official visits work. More to do with the Civil Service than the Government.

Strange how the Irish Beef ban wasn't lifted earlier, not sure if FG or the Govt can explain that one.

Fukushima is perhaps one reason.

renegademaster

Hitchens wrote: »

He seems to have made quite a good impression on the Japanese. The ban on Irish beef to be lifted and Enda has invited the Crown Prince to Ireland for a visit.

Credit where it's due!

i fail to see what edna is due credit for, i'd have done the same myself if i was over on a flipping trade mission!!