Great Irish farces of the 21st Century

Sunny Disposition

There have been plenty if we can remember them.

The Taoiseach saying he didn’t have a bank account while he was Minister for Finance, then trying to explain away sums of money by saying he had won them on horses, but couldn’t remember the names of those horses.

John Delaney being praised as an organisational and financial visionary while the FAI teetered on the brink of implosion.

The soccer team going away to train for the World Cup but nobody bringing the balls.

RTE presenters and politicians continually stressing the life and death importance of following Covid restrictions.But then merrily breaking them at a leaving party and a golf society party.

John O’Donoghues expenses, which included a limo between airport terminals, trips to the Cannes film festival, hat hire for an employee attending horse racing.

€9 meals.

Maria Bailey

Ash.J.Williams

eircom shares

Ash.J.Williams

Over paying rte presenters because the bbc are queuing up to poach them 😂😂

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118159218#Comment_118159218

Wrong century.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118159500#Comment_118159500

Shite I really need to read more than 2 words of sentences

whisky_galore

Most utterances out of Danny Healy Rae.

A real life Kilinascully character.

Ash.J.Williams

Irish water

like it’s perfectly acceptable internationally to pay for water , but FG sent walking PR disaster phil to sell it to the public and failed miserably 😂

“pay or we’ll reduce your supply to a trickle”

the protests hadn’t a valid reason between them but that was irrelevant, it was a PR disaster

for Me it was simple, if water tax currently comes from other taxes , then those taxes need to be reduced before we pay for water

Higher Predicted grades being accepted for CAO purposes over lower grades achieved in the actual exam. Have started seeing the lower quality, aggressive student that has got in to uni this year,amd assume the same aggression was used by parents against teachers to get the unjustifed predicted grades. And dont' get me started on teachers behaviour over this pandemic(rant tbc in private)

Montage of Feck

Grade inflation through the roof resulting in college places being awarded by lotto rather than merit, albeit the rather flawed merit of getting good results in a single exam with no regard to aptitude.

BrianD3

As well as the big stuff like the ongoing sh*tshow that is our health service

Iodine tablets

E-voting machines

Leinster House printer

Prime Time 2011 Presidential Election debate

Patrick Honohan announces Troika bailout on radio programme

Tell me how

Collectively Pat Hickey and John Delaney (who have been mentioned) and they sense of entitlement they had while athletes were being treated as amateurs while being expected to compete on the world stage.

NAMA/The Irish Rental Market and the ineptitude of successive Governments in this area.

DarkJager21

I miss the 20th century, when someone lying about who upholstered a seat on the Late Late show caused ructions for 2 weeks solid 😂

magicbastarder

mental reservation.

Montage of Feck

The iodine tablets thing was weird, at the time there was a lot of worry about Sellafield exploding and irrading the East coast; imagine the horror of Dublin being inhabited by lawless feral mutants...oh wait. But today its turf we should be worried about!

vriesmays

The Irish film thing. All we produce are cheap tv movies and misguided twats like Graham Cantwell.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118159533#Comment_118159533

On the subject of the Healy Raes, the time MHR "won" some RTE reality show which involved the public ringing & texting to vote. Later turned out that literally thousands of calls had been made from the the one phone in the Dail.

Edit: here we go, the Internet never forgets.

https://www.joe.ie/uncategorized/3500-dail-phone-calls-help-healy-rae-win-reality-tv-show-25396

Duckworth_Luas

The soccer guy asking FIFA if Ireland could be the 33rd team at a World Cup making the FAI a, bigger than usual, laughing stock around the world.

Deregos.

That Irish water company & the broadband debacles.

silliussoddius

Richest country in the world, krispy kreme donuts, Garth Brooks

BrianD3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118159917#Comment_118159917

Apparently, the iodine tablets would have done nothing if there was an issue with Sellafield - wrong kind of radiation. Details like this are some of the best parts of farces - someone "important" has a half baked idea and the people in the know are not consulted or not listened to. Money is then wasted on rubbish.

I worked in the public service for many years and was embroiled in/knew of several farcical situations. They would not be public knowledge or severe enough for someone to blow a whistle but still resulted in the ridiculous waste of tens of thousands of euro.

kravmaga

The taxpayer bailing out Anglo Irish Bank

dxhound2005

Politicians giving away most of their wages, to court popularity by living on the average industrial wage. And then having to go to banks and millionaire businessmen for a bailout or a dig out, when they ran short of money.

riclad

The housing market going from boom to bust to bank bailout now we have housing crisis lack of housing high rents make it hard for even people with good jobs to buy even a 2bed house.

Getting rid of bedsits forced single people on lower incomes to compete with workers to get a chance of rental accommodation pushing up the average cost of rental units for everyone

The system is broken high rank civil servants get high pension a politican that retires gets a large pension for life meanwhile nurses and Gardai struggle to buy a house

The senate is a total waste of money but what Politican is going to vote to close down a talking shop that gives them a nice big pension old Politicans go to the senate as they can't get the votes to be a TD

Meanwhile it's hard to tell the difference between fine Gael and Fianna Fáil they are putting forward house building plans build 20k houses etc as they realise young voters are turning to sinn fein as the are fed up with the housing crisis rising rents and soon we could be going back to the 70s

Eg High prices for oil gas rising inflation on basic items like food

Gen z is in for a shock they don't remember when inflation was a high when oil prices go up it causes everything else to rise in price

Gen z grew up with low inflation and low oil prices

dxhound2005

Politicians can't vote to close down the Senate, it has to go to referendum. Already tried in 2013.

DUBLIN (AP) — Irish voters rejected a government plan to abolish the country’s much-criticized Senate, a surprise result Saturday that dealt a blow to Prime Minister Enda Kenny.

Kenny had personally campaigned for the proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate Ireland’s upper house of parliament, arguing the Senate was undemocratic, politically toothless and expensive in an era of brutal budget cuts. All opinion polls during the month long campaign had pointed to easy passage.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118159686#Comment_118159686

Simpler times, when we gathered around concrete statues and watched if they made any moves.

vriesmays

The free tree in Wicklow from the millennium. Best of luck claiming it now.

retalivity

Bertie telling people complaining about the economy that they should commit suicide.

Brian Cowen locked on the radio after a night out.

The RHI thing in the north, farmers and politicians claiming millions heating empty barns.

Michelle Mulherin and the thousands of euro in call to her boyfriend in Kenya.

Firblog

Spending €1 Billion+ to build a hospital in inner city location rather than half that on one in greenfield site off a motorway.

AlekSmart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118164128#Comment_118164128

Any yet,today,as one of the greatest scientific miracles of modern times occurred,nobody but NOBODY could bring themselves to suggest burning witches might still be a worthwhile tactic against Covid...

https://www.thejournal.ie/eamon-ryan-positive-for-covid19-5594379-Nov2021/

Eureka! after less than a day,this collossus amongst cyclists,got himself a mortar & pestle and secured magnificent release from the plague.....

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/eamon-ryan-will-travel-to-cop26-after-second-covid-test-is-negative-1.4721793

Glasgow,on the other hand,may yet have cause to shiver !!!

tupenny

Wasn't a clock put in the liffey for some reason for the millennium, but it didn't work?

Vague recollection