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Why do Charlie Haughey's family still own an island?

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  • #92
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    I think it would be fair to assume that your achievements pale in significance to those of Haughey. Not.

    Haha go do one will you.


  • #93
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,738 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    He only got the job because of who he married.
    Never had Charlie down as a priest.



    "TAXI!!!!"


  • #94
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,891 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    blueser wrote: »
    Never had Charlie down as a priest.



    "TAXI!!!!"

    His father was a priest.


  • #95
    BENDYBINN
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    Irish Kings wrote: »
    Never thought I'd say it, but compared to what came after him, and what we have now, i'd take CJ anyday

    Charlie bought a few fancy shirts and he’s a gangster, Michael D stays in 4000
    a night hotel rooms and not a word.....banana republic indeed!


  • #96
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,891 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Charlie bought a few fancy shirts and he’s a gangster, Michael D stays in 4000
    a night hotel rooms and not a word.....banana republic indeed!

    What made him a gangster is that he bought very big shirts so as he did not have to tighten his belt.


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  • #97
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,738 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    His father was a priest.
    The apple didn't fall too far from the tree then, eh?

    ;)


  • #98
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,849 ✭ [Deleted User]


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Charlie bought a few fancy shirts and he’s a gangster, Michael D stays in 4000
    a night hotel rooms and not a word.....banana republic indeed!

    Did Michael D stay in 4000 a night room or in a hotel that had rooms that cost 4000 a night?


  • #99
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Charlie bought a few fancy shirts and he’s a gangster, Michael D stays in 4000
    a night hotel rooms and not a word.....banana republic indeed!

    Oh come on it’s more than just the shirts, stop being willfully ignorant.

    I suppose you think poor Bertie was hounded out of office because he had no bank account.


  • #100
    BENDYBINN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭BENDYBINN


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    Oh come on it’s more than just the shirts, stop being willfully ignorant.

    I suppose you think poor Bertie was hounded out of office because he had no bank account.

    Bertie forced us all to queue for 3days so we could get our hands on phase 3 of the meadows!
    Big bad Bertie..sure he ruined the country.


  • #101
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,849 ✭ [Deleted User]


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Bertie forced us all to queue for 3days so we could get our hands on phase 3 of the meadows!
    Big bad Bertie..sure he ruined the country.

    Yes, he really upset the apple tart.


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  • #102
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Bertie forced us all to queue for 3days so we could get our hands on phase 3 of the meadows!
    Big bad Bertie..sure he ruined the country.

    Ahern told people to go kill themselves if they questioned the (artificial) boom.

    He is a scumbag.


  • #103
    BENDYBINN
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    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Ahern told people to go kill themselves if they questioned the (artificial) boom.

    He is a scumbag.

    Cheap shot.....
    A country’s leader should always talk up the economy.


  • #104
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Cheap shot.....
    A country’s leader should always talk up the economy.

    A country's leader does not tell critics to go kill themselves.

    Particularly in a country with some of the highest suicide rates for young people in Europe.


  • #105
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,152 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    A country's leader does not tell critics to go kill themselves.

    Particularly in a country with some of the highest suicide rates for young people in Europe.

    Except he didn’t tell anyone to go kill themselves as you claim.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #106
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    Except he didn’t tell anyone to go kill themselves as you claim.

    'Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide because frankly the only thing that motivates me is being able to actively change something,' - Ahern at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions conference back in 2007.

    Still want to engage in this revisionism for your "Dear Leader"?


  • #107
    Irish Kings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭Irish Kings


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Cheap shot.....
    A country’s leader should always talk up the economy.

    tell lies you mean ?


  • #108
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,152 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    'Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide because frankly the only thing that motivates me is being able to actively change something,'

    Still want to engage in this revisionism for your "Dear Leader"?

    Putting the words commit suicide in bold does not make your claim correct. Where does he tell people, as you claim to commit suicide?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #109
    SafeSurfer
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    Give me dig out Bertie any day over “**** the peace process” John Bruton.


    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3602603/A-noble-but-doomed-attempt-to-lift-the-debate-on-Northern-Ireland.html

    Have you ever considered the Fine Gael counter revolution and the links with the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) such as The Clongowes old boy network?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #110
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    A country's leader does not tell critics to go kill themselves.

    Particularly in a country with some of the highest suicide rates for young people in Europe.
    Doublethink Orwell would be proud of from these folk who pretend Haughey and Ahern's corruption was a-ok just because they were in opposition to Fine Gael, and no other reason. Both sides could be criticised of course, but for some, it is simply unfeasible to admit to faults on the side they support.


  • #111
    SafeSurfer
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    Toby Round Violin wrote: »
    Doublethink Orwell would be proud of from these folk who pretend Haughey and Ahern's corruption was a-ok just because they were in opposition to Fine Gael, and no other reason. Both sides could be criticised of course, but for some, it is simply unfeasible to admit to faults on the side they support.


    There are skeletons in the closets of all Irish political parties. In some cases more literally than others. Arguably the greatest corruption in the history of the state was under the watch of Fine Gael minister Michael Lowery. Perhaps only the Greens, of Irish political parties are without major scandal such as murder, child abuse, treason and corruption.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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  • #112
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Lowry - bad; Haughey and Ahern - grand.

    You couldn't make it up.

    How about all three were bad?


  • #113
    SafeSurfer
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    Toby Round Violin wrote: »
    Lowry - bad; Haughey and Ahern - grand.

    You couldn't make it up.

    How about all three were bad?

    How about the white Nelson Mandela not being without sin either and some very dodgy, criminal elements in Labour and we could agree.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #114
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    How about the white Nelson Mandela not being without sin either and some very dodgy, criminal elements in Labour and we could agree.
    I don't know who you mean by white Nelson Mandela but yeah obviously - where have I indicated otherwise? Should ticking all five boxes be necessary before you agree that the three previously mentioned were all crooked?


  • #115
    Irish Kings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭Irish Kings


    Romour has it CJ is not dead at all, it was a tax dodge, and he's living it up in a chateau in the south of France.


  • #116
    Are Am Eye
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    Irish Kings wrote: »
    Romour has it CJ is not dead at all, it was a tax dodge, and he's living it up in a chateau in the south of France.

    Apparently he imports his shirts from Ireland.


  • #117
    Spanish Eyes
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    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    Apparently he imports his shirts from Ireland.

    Charleville Shirts. :p


  • #118
    BENDYBINN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭BENDYBINN


    Lovely Leo suggests setting up fake accounts online so he can brainwash the people.
    Imagine the outcry if Bertie had tried that.


  • #119
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Lovely Leo suggests setting up fake accounts online so he can brainwash the people.
    Imagine the outcry if Bertie had tried that.

    Leo gets away it because he has nice socks.


  • #120
    GhostyMcGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭GhostyMcGhost


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Lovely Leo suggests setting up fake accounts online so he can brainwash the people.
    Imagine the outcry if Bertie had tried that.

    Bertie doesn't own a computer


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  • #121
    jjmcclure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 626 ✭✭✭jjmcclure


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Oh and he had a mistress too, upon whom he lavished many gifts also.

    Must have been humiliating for his dear wife and children to know this. But they (perhaps apart from the real wife RIP) didn't care.

    Shame on those in North Co. Dublin who voted for this neanderthal, and who elected one of his sons subsequently too.

    There is no saving this country from admiration of criminality and dodgy dealing. Is there?


    I'd take 10 Charlies over one Paul Murphy, Ruth Copperwhinger or Rich Boy Barrett any day


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