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Great Irish farces of the 21st Century

  • 13-11-2021 12:18am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 Sunny Disposition
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    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,434 Ash.J.Williams
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    eircom shares



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,434 Ash.J.Williams
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    Over paying rte presenters because the bbc are queuing up to poach them 😂😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,434 Ash.J.Williams
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    Shite I really need to read more than 2 words of sentences



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,815 whisky_galore
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    Most utterances out of Danny Healy Rae.

    A real life Kilinascully character.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,434 Ash.J.Williams
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    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



  • Posts: 1,010 [Deleted User]
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    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)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,774 Montage of Feck
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    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.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,514 BrianD3
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    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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 Tell me how
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    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 DarkJager21
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    I miss the 20th century, when someone lying about who upholstered a seat on the Late Late show caused ructions for 2 weeks solid 😂



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,891 magicbastarder
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    mental reservation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,774 Montage of Feck
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    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!

    🙈🙉🙊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 vriesmays
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    The Irish film thing. All we produce are cheap tv movies and misguided twats like Graham Cantwell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,544 Hangdogroad
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    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 Duckworth_Luas
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    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 Deregos.
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    That Irish water company & the broadband debacles.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,892 silliussoddius
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    Richest country in the world, krispy kreme donuts, Garth Brooks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,514 BrianD3
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    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 kravmaga
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    The taxpayer bailing out Anglo Irish Bank



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 dxhound2005
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    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 riclad
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    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 dxhound2005
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    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,815 whisky_galore
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    Simpler times, when we gathered around concrete statues and watched if they made any moves.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 vriesmays
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    The free tree in Wicklow from the millennium. Best of luck claiming it now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,661 retalivity
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    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,203 Firblog
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    Spending €1 Billion+ to build a hospital in inner city location rather than half that on one in greenfield site off a motorway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 AlekSmart
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    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.....

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


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,439 tupenny
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    Wasn't a clock put in the liffey for some reason for the millennium, but it didn't work?

    Vague recollection



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,514 BrianD3
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    Yes, The Time In The Slime. But as it was a millenium countdown clock, it was an example of 20th century farce, not 21st century farce!





  • “Grade inflation” is a hot topic around the A levels in England every single year, and is also an ongoing controversy in the US, Germany, Australia and many other countries.

    Where did you get the idea this was some specifically Irish farce?





  • It’s rectified now, but the Luas opening as two distinct unconnected lines.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 Duckworth_Luas
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    It was always the plan to connect the original two lines, as there has always been provisional plans for many more lines in the Luas network.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 BurgerFace
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    Just because what is the norm in other countries should be de riguer in Ireland?

    Should Ireland make college free because it's free in Denmark?

    Should Ireland ban chewing gum because it's banned in Singapore?

    Should Ireland ban tobacco because it's banned in Nepal?

    Should Ireland ban alcohol because it's banned in Iran?

    Should Ireland punish theft via limb amputation because that's how they roll in Saudi Arabia?

    Should Ireland scrap it's healthcare system and social welfare safety net because so many other countries don't have such things?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,745 StupidLikeAFox
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    Irish water as a concept makes sense, it's a bit weird to have a 30 odd separate county councils managing the water of a small country as opposed to 1 utility company. Imagine if the same applied to mobile networks, gas or electricity, it would be chaos

    The downfall was the execution and the vague threat of privatisation



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 BurgerFace
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    Having a fcuking day of mourning for 9/11 while the politicians and industry leaders in the US were licking their lips at the billions they were going to make on the wars that were to come.

    The 33rd team at the World Cup (already mentioned) was a cringeworthy episode.







  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 Stone Deaf 4evr
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    Something that caused uproar at the time, but I dont ever hear it mentioned anymore was the whole PPARS / FISP thing.


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/hse-suspends-work-on-two-computer-payroll-systems-1.1183240



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,877 dxhound2005
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    In the last century property tax which contributed to water services and bin collections was abolished. It was a very popular move politically, giving FF the biggest ever majority. The farce was that income tax and the equivalent then of VAT would cover the shortfall. Within a few years income tax was at 60% and anti tax marches, dwarfing anything seen against Irish Water were on the streets. It has ruined funding for local government, and caused no end of trouble since. Bin charges are back, and it will be only a matter of time for water charges.

    The North which inherited the same system as us in 1922 took the sensible course of keeping local property tax. Avoiding all the farces which have ensued here into this century.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,514 BrianD3
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    Keep 'em coming, I just remembered another one - the new Dublin city roadsigns circa 2002 which had to be scrapped due to confusing people. I didn't find any pics after a quick Google but have a vague mental image of them.

    A minor enough farce by the standards of others - money wasted probably "only" a 5 figure sum.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,512 KaneToad
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    Don't forget about the other LLS classic scandal...Gerry Ryan killing the lamb...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,434 Ash.J.Williams
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,101 randd1
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    The rugby world cup bid.

    The wilful ignoring of the impending financial collapse.

    The FAI.

    The Brian Cowan nude pictures.

    The flocking of people to Achill Island to see a vision of Mary in the sky by staring at the sun.

    Cork hurling strike.

    E-voting machines.

    Arthurs Day.

    Saipan.

    There's obviously much more. We've had a few humdingers in fairness.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,544 Hangdogroad
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    Neil Prendiville, Cork radio presenter masturbating on a plane in full view of passengers. Not only did this odious creep avoid prosecution he was back on air in no time.


    https://www.thejournal.ie/corks-96fm-presenter-exposed-himself-on-flight-report-41946-Nov2010/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,815 whisky_galore
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    The gaa vs Croker residents Garth Brooks war. Fcukin embarrassing angry people on local news shyte thats somehow of national importance.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,751 For Forks Sake
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,548 Hotblack Desiato
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    I wonder does he get a lot of people phoning in asking for Phil Collins - Coming In The Air Tonight

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 vriesmays
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    The basic pay for artists. If these people had genuine talent they would be commercially successful. Why can't they get a proper job and wait till their art career takes off.



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