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Which Taoiseach would you go for a few pints with?

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  • #32
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,965 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    List is very bad. You'd have to pick Haughey though. Like him or loathe him he was one of the most influential (for better and worse) politicians this country has ever had at a time when Ireland finally dragged itself into the modern era.

    That drama series RTE did a year or two back was actually very interesting!


  • #33
    jimmy blevins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭jimmy blevins


    Would I have to toast the queen if i went on the tear with bruton?


  • #34
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    I've a mate who's father went to school with Enda Kenny. Fella was meant to have been an absolute piss head as a young man. Also I think Enda would be in need of a pint nowadays as things seem to he turning to ****e.


  • #35
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Patser wrote: »
    Poll is seriously missing Haughey, you know he'd have hookers, coke, French shirts etc and wouldn't give a flying feck.

    he used to threaten guards enforcing closing time with Donegal if they didn't leave the pub , my kind of drinking buddy :D

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  • #36
    Lovely Bloke
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    artanevilla wrote: »
    There's no way Bertie would get a round in.

    Absolutely not true, the man regularly stands rounds for all manner of people in his locals, still to this day.

    Most notably the Gardaí who drink in the Home Farm clubhouse in Drumcondra, it's right beside the station, and Bertie always had a lot of respect for the Rank & File Gardaí.


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  • #37
    Your Face
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    I would politely decline.


  • #38
    robbiezero
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    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    none, most politicians are a boring lot, with similar or same ****e ideas

    Would ya think so?
    I would have thought they would be full of interesting stories and anecdotes. Try a night out with a bunch of software engineers.


  • #39
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,737 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    robbiezero wrote: »
    Would ya think so?
    I would have thought they would be full of interesting stories and anecdotes. Try a night out with a bunch of software engineers.

    hahaha good point actually, true they would actually have very interesting stories but ive found political journalists/commentators far more interesting;)


  • #40
    Red Kev
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    Bertie Ahern all day long. I'd suffer him for the few hours, then fcuk the curry chips over him in the chipper afterwards and give him a couple of good, hard slaps.

    Cowan for the LOLZ, singing and craic.

    Enda would be telling a few dry jokes, whilst drinking a glass of shandy. I've an uncle just like him.

    Bruton would be too judgmental as to the amount I'm drinking.

    Cosgrave would get ratty and tired and we'd have to call an early night for him.


  • #41
    jimgoose
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    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    hahaha good point actually, true they would actually have very interesting stories but ive found political journalists/commentators far more interesting;)

    Frank Dunlop's book "Yes Taoiseach" is quite entertaining.


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  • #42
    Conchir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭Conchir


    On a college night out last year, we ran into Enda in the Gingerman. He seemed decent company for the 2 or 3 minutes we were with him. Past that I don't know.

    I went for Bertie, reckon he'd be the most tolerable.


  • #43
    Lt Dan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    re_shaft wrote: »
    Given that we may be getting a new one soon enough, this question popped into my head. Which living (ex-) Taoiseach would you go for a few pints with? The "pint" factor used to be a big one with Bertie. It was said in a way that assured you he was "a man of the people" and why wouldn't you have a pint of Bass with him, or indeed vote for him?

    So given the choice (it's a grim list!) which one would you for a few pints with? I'd opt for Bertie. I'll leave political differences aside, I think it'd be quite interesting to get a few of the stories from him. And I reckon he'd be on for a skinful.

    Liam C, I'd worry that he'd die and we'd end up like Weekend At Bernies. Bruton is a dry sh!te. Cowen, I think he's a mess. Kenny is grand but not sure how much craic he'd be.

    So long as you did not expect Bertie to pay for a single pint, unless you pulled the famous Charles J Haughey stunt, then ya, Bertie would be decent craic. One thing though, I would not touch "Bass" if the only other option was cat's pee

    Cowen? Hmm, rowdy it would be, but, he is a B.I.F.F.O. , would get messy

    Bruton? Would "pint" be his thing? Not a sherry , or wine? or Brandy (later two are even better)


  • #44
    Lt Dan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    artanevilla wrote: »
    There's no way Bertie would get a round in.

    Haughey got one on him :D


  • #45
    Lt Dan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    Jawgap wrote: »
    Lemass, Costello or Fitzgerald.....

    .....or Haughey.

    The bunch in the poll are just boring......

    EDIT: Just saw you said living Taoiseach :o.......I'd still rather dig up one of the others and go out with any of that lot!

    At a push - Cowan, at least he get his round in.

    Haughey, easily, and it would not be some gruby pub either. The finest of chicken and wine and birds . Try and dig out some great stories (no chance in getting them)

    Get Brian Lenihan Senior, PJ Mara and Ben Dunne in on the fun and it would be some bash


  • #46
    Lt Dan
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    osarusan wrote: »
    I'd rather go with Fitzgerald's corpse than any of the living ones.

    Jesus, I would hope that it is more craic than the living corpse of Fitzgerald. One shandy, he would be gone off home


  • #47
    Lt Dan
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    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Where's Dev I want to spit in the auld bollixs glass. Ask him did ya do it, we'll did ya. Too many options o that question to be frank.

    Frank Aiken would have ya by the scruff of the neck and bounced around the room before ya got to even shout "Did", ya pup ya.

    Up Dev, Up the Republic , yahoo:D


  • #48
    Lt Dan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,295 ✭✭✭Lt Dan


    Noveight wrote: »
    Jack Lynch.

    Great Call. Throw him and Liam Cosgrave Junior in. Those lads, despite being opponents, were known to be friendly and enjoyed a bottle of Paddy's.

    You could talk about hurling and football and whether he knew about what Haughey was up to (maybe not) . Throw in Paddy Hillery too and the would be a great chat


  • #49
    pumpkin4life
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    From experience, Charlie Haughey.

    Here's a picture of me at one of the madder seshes:

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    Oh, LIVING. I misread the title. Well bollocks to that.

    Brian Cowen then. Here's a picture of me at one of the madder seshes.

    mcnulty-drunk.png


  • #50
    Lt Dan
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    silverharp wrote: »
    he used to threaten guards enforcing closing time with Donegal if they didn't leave the pub , my kind of drinking buddy :D

    Shelbourne Hotel too , with Doherty. "Good even Guard, a Pint or a transfer"

    Stuff of legends


  • #51
    The Golden Miller
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    beertons wrote: »
    Bruton. My mother is from Meath, I can handle the humour.

    What humour? I'm from meath and have never come close to seeing anything that could be described as a unique brand of "Meath humour", that differs from anywhere else. Even if there is, what would an affluent castle Catholic anglophile know about it?


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
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    Imagine Bruton getting drunk and welling up about "the greatest day in his life", the day he met Prince Charles. And then he'd become morose and staring at his pint, saying "besh day ah my life, sherioushly"...


  • #53
    mikeymouse
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    6 or 8 pints of Bass with Bertie ,
    then he could drop me home.


  • #54
    Ferrari3600
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    Brian Cowen. And no, that doesn't mean I think he was a good Taoiseach.


  • #55
    andekwarhola
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    Haughey.

    If only to get to have a few glasses of claret watching the sunset on Inishvickillane.


  • #56
    Richard Hillman
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    artanevilla wrote: »
    There's no way Bertie would get a round in.

    Bertie would get all the rounds in but will have to fly off a bit early. When you leave the bar the barman will tell you all about your tab.


  • #57
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Never a Taoiseach obviously but I've always heard that Brian Lenihan Sr was a great pintman.

    A good fella to organise a lock in apparently.


  • #58
    maudgonner
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    Lovely Bloke wrote: »
    Absolutely not true, the man regularly stands rounds for all manner of people in his locals, still to this day.

    Most notably the Gardaí who drink in the Home Farm clubhouse in Drumcondra, it's right beside the station, and Bertie always had a lot of respect for the Rank & File Gardaí.

    Does he pay cash or card?

    I'm guessing cash ;)


  • #59
    Ulysses Gaze
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    43% would go for drinks with that lying, thieving cnut Ahern?

    You do realise he wouldn't pay for a drink at all?

    He'd give you a sob story about not even having enough money to buy tea bags.....


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
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    Depends on what kind of night I wanted.

    If I felt like one or two quiet drinks with stimulating discussion and debate then I suppose I'd pick either Bruton or Kenny, the former being more intellectual but the latter probably more approachable.

    But if I want an almighty piss-up of a night, that culminates in a lock-in with a rousing sing song and blatant flouting of the smoking ban, then it would have to be Cowen.

    Don't think I could deal with Ahern on a night out, I'd be afraid he'd try to steal my wallet or attempt selling me a second-hand car or something. I know absolutely nothing about Liam Cosgrave other than he's very very old.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
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    The idea of the self-hating, imperial war-glorifying Redmondite Paddy that is Lord John Bruton being in any way stimulating company beggars belief. I mean, for fúck sake - it's John Bruton we're talking about. He's just ugh - a tumescent bundle of moral hypocrisy - using violence for the political aims of the British Empire/state is noble and should be honoured but using violence for the political aim of Irish independence is morally wrong and such people should be excoriated. He has spent the greater part of his adult life enveloped in cultural cringe shame preaching this to us all - consistently shrivelling up when challenged about how ahistorical and hypocritical he is. He's also on a massive pension since the age of 34 in 1982. Last year alone that pension was €140,000. In one year. Add super parasite on our taxes to the list.

    Intellectually, too, John Bruton is a dullard - as Ronan Fanning's fantastic destruction of Bruton's "history" of John Redmond showed. Still a big thick ultra-conservative Blueshirt farmer from Meath, elected by likeminded sorts and the peasant cheerleaders for the local hunt. Thickness personified. The guy seethes anti-Irishness. And don't get me started about that infamous speech to Charles Saxe-Coburg Gotha back in Dublin Castle in 1995 where the English prince was apparently somebody John Bruton "aspired to be".

    Kenny and Cowen would be more stimulating company if only because both of them could talk to me in the Irish and that opens up a world all the time. Cowen, although a bit rightwing for my liking, would easily be the most stimulating company intellectually (at least until the drink took him). And I love a good song!


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