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Cowengate: The Barry Cowen drink driving affair

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  • #62
    BonnieSituation
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    Mearings wrote: »
    "regularising his licence" can only mean passing the driving test.

    Or course. But why create a new clunky phrase that could be interpreted in an unintended fashion?

    "I passed my test on [insert date]" would surely have been a better bet, especially seeing as there were multiple questions about the vagaries of his bullshít story about the circumstances before the arrest.


  • #63
    BonnieSituation
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    blackwhite wrote: »
    I'm guessing that there's a reluctance to go too hard after someone who's leaked them information - given they want others to keep leaking them information!

    That's a cracking point.


  • #64
    Sam Russell
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    Mearings wrote: »
    "regularising his licence" can only mean passing the driving test.

    When you regularise something, it suggests that it was irregular before. Now having a learner permit is not irregular. Passing your test is not irregular. So what was 'irregular'.

    Was it driving around as if he had a full licence with no 'L' plates and no qualified driver accompaniment? Hmmmm.... that would be irregular alright. Doing it while at TD and Councillor - now that would be irregular alright.

    Thinking that as a FF TD you were above the law - well that would be quite OK, and quite usual.


  • #65
    [Deleted User]
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    Sam Russell wrote: »
    When you regularise something, it suggests that it was irregular before. Now having a learner permit is not irregular. Passing your test is not irregular. So what was 'irregular'.
    .

    We're really scraping the barrel now. This can be solved pretty quickly with a dictionary. Irregular can refer to something that is unconventional. It is unconventional for a 49 year old professional to drive on a Learner Permit. Mystery over?


  • #66
    [Deleted User]
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    Will we get a live video feed of the driving test?

    I guess that he will ace the 3 point turn and probably reversing around a corner too.


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  • #67
    Hermy
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    This can be solved pretty quickly with a dictionary.

    The politicians use of the word may be quite irregular compared with the dictionary definition.

    It could be solved very quickly if politicians just told the truth and stopped constantly trying to bullsh!t their way out of their own mess.

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  • #68
    Mossie1975
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    Still making Sunday paper front page. Heard a preview of the papers this morning and it was suggested in an article that BC was making tentative steps to aligning himself with Jim O’Callaghan with both eyeing up potential FF leadership.


  • #69
    magicbastarder
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    That's made my morning. He's clearly shows he has leadership qualities.


  • #70
    Mearings
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    We're really scraping the barrel now. This can be solved pretty quickly with a dictionary. Irregular can refer to something that is unconventional. It is unconventional for a 49 year old professional to drive on a Learner Permit. Mystery over?


    "I conventionalised my licence." I bet BC would loved to have thought of that phrase.


  • #71
    Sam Russell
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    Cowen is continue to dig. Best advice ever - When in a hole, stop digging!

    He is lawyering up to take on the Gardai - not a good position to be. He must have been noticed by the local Gardai to be driving around without 'L' plates, and without a supervising co-driver (if he did do so). He is playing with fire - they have long memories, and can be vindictive.


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  • #72
    [Deleted User]
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    That's made my morning. He's clearly shows he has leadership qualities.

    care to explain?


  • #73
    coylemj
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    Mossie1975 wrote: »
    Still making Sunday paper front page. Heard a preview of the papers this morning and it was suggested in an article that BC was making tentative steps to aligning himself with Jim O’Callaghan with both eyeing up potential FF leadership.

    I seriously doubt that Jim O'Callaghan needs a BIFFO with a chip on his shoulder on his team to advance his leadership ambitions.

    BC might be taking 'tentative steps' to hook himself to JC's wagon but I think he'll quietly be told that he's not wanted.


  • #74
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    coylemj wrote: »
    I seriously doubt that Jim O'Callaghan needs a BIFFO with a chip on his shoulder on his team to advance his leadership ambitions.

    BC might be taking 'tentative steps' to hook himself to JC's wagon but I think he'll quietly be told that he's not wanted.

    Obviously not the case given the Sunday Times article where he backs Cowen publicly


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