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Will Leo be the shortest serving taoiseach in history?

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  • #32
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,743 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Really? So what has he done, serious question.
    A lot done, more to do!


  • #33
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    Duckworth_Luas wrote:
    A lot done, more to do!


    Any examples?


  • #34
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #35
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,111 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Don't mind Varadkar really. And Coveney would make an excellent Tanaiste so I hope she does walk. Never found her overly impressive really.


  • #36
    saintsaltynuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭saintsaltynuts


    May as well be Leo Sayer as Taoiseach.I mean he'l lead ye on a song and dance as well.


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  • #37
    Soulsun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Soulsun


    Is there a real possibility of an election soon?


  • #38
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,775 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Soulsun wrote: »
    Is there a real possibility of an election soon?

    Certainly not until well in to the new year.


  • #39
    littelady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 304 ✭✭littelady


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Really? So what has he done, serious question.

    He is helping people finance ivf. He is also looking after the self-employed giving them the same rights as those on prsi.


  • #40
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    I'm sure there is many in FG who wish they had taken M McCabe seriously and treated him with the respect and decency he deserved.


  • #41
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,261 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Very much so. Why was there such resistance to his claims


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  • #42
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Very much so. Why was there such resistance to his claims

    Much is due to the culture of the Gardai and no small amount to the character of the man who was chief of that organisation at the time.


  • #43
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    littelady wrote:
    He is helping people finance ivf. He is also looking after the self-employed giving them the same rights as those on prsi.

    That's not an answer to my question. I asked what has Leo done.


  • #44
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,743 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Any examples?
    ahern_1794871b.jpg


  • #45
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,261 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    As for Leo, if he is the shortest serving Taoiseach so be it.

    As many people pointed out at the time, he has f all achievements to point to prior to being Taoiseach, and damn all achieved in the few months he's had the top job.

    For all the criticism of Kenny he never would have made such a faux pas as Leo did last week trying to minimise the homelessness problem.

    Leo is a wannabe Home Counties Tory.

    And despite his fcuking propaganda unit, ppl are copping on


  • #46
    enricoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Hitman3000 wrote: »
    Any examples?

    When Fine gael took over from fianna fail every second weekend there was a going away party on around here with friends going to oz, Canada etc looking for work
    Fast forward to now and virtually everyone I know is working. I was building an extension this year and every tradesman I had was flat out also
    Thats good enough for me to vote for them


  • #47
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    He has got achievements, keeping Sinn Fein out of government thus saving the economy and the countries dignity.


  • #48
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,261 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    A Little Pony wrote: »
    He has got achievements, keeping Sinn Fein out of government thus saving the economy and the countries dignity.

    Nothing to do with Leo.


  • #49
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    A Little Pony wrote:
    He has got achievements, keeping Sinn Fein out of government thus saving the economy and the countries dignity.


    Sinn Fein has kept themselves out of government.


  • #50
    littelady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 304 ✭✭littelady


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    As for Leo, if he is the shortest serving Taoiseach so be it.

    As many people pointed out at the time, he has f all achievements to point to prior to being Taoiseach, and damn all achieved in the few months he's had the top job.

    For all the criticism of Kenny he never would have made such a faux pas as Leo did last week trying to minimise the homelessness problem.

    Leo is a wannabe Home Counties Tory.

    "F all achievemeets prior to being Taoiseach" you do realise he is a doctor.

    He is right about homelessness every country has it.


  • #51
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,261 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    littelady wrote: »
    "F all achievemeets prior to being Taoiseach" you do realise he is a doctor.

    He is right about homelessness every country has it.

    His personal qualifications have f all to do with his POLITICAL ACHIEVEMENTS


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  • #52
    Fanny Wank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭Fanny Wank


    enricoh wrote: »
    When Fine gael took over from fianna fail every second weekend there was a going away party on around here with friends going to oz, Canada etc looking for work
    Fast forward to now and virtually everyone I know is working. I was building an extension this year and every tradesman I had was flat out also
    Thats good enough for me to vote for them

    You probably should vote for Mario Draghi so


  • #53
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    She'll go. She's only there cos she's a yes woman, Enda knew he could count on her to the bitter end, then she backed the right horse in the leadership bid and was given a nice new ministry as reward. Always found her very underwhelming. Herself and Charlie Flanagan could fuel a hot air baloon between them


  • #54
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,261 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Agricola wrote: »
    She'll go. She's only there cos she's a yes woman, Enda knew he could count on her to the bitter end, then she backed the right horse in the leadership bid and was given a nice new ministry as reward. Always found her very underwhelming. Herself and Charlie Flanagan could fuel a hot air baloon between them

    Any time I saw her on tv it brought to mind the little Britain "but I'm a laydeeeee" sketch


  • #55
    littelady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 304 ✭✭littelady


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    His personal qualifications have f all to do with his POLITICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

    I disagree being a doctor shows his intelligence.


  • #56
    Hooks Golf Handicap
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 233 ✭✭Hooks Golf Handicap


    He has driven the 8th referendum forward.
    The nuclear bomb of Irish Politics.
    Forget the economy, the fall in unemployment, rights for the self employed . . .the 8th will be the defining moment of our time.

    Michael Martin would have lost this down the back of the radiator by now.


  • #57
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,261 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    littelady wrote: »
    I disagree being a doctor shows his intelligence.

    Grand so


  • #58
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Agricola wrote: »
    She'll go. She's only there cos she's a yes woman, Enda knew he could count on her to the bitter end, then she backed the right horse in the leadership bid and was given a nice new ministry as reward. Always found her very underwhelming. Herself and Charlie Flanagan could fuel a hot air baloon between them

    Well seeing as Charlie is 'old guard' FG, and also knew of the email for a week (publicly) before he told Leo (resulting in Leo having to correct the record 3 times) I think he may also be shuffled off too.

    If it emerges (as the truth always comes out) that FG hierarchy were indeed aware of the Garda strategy to smear Maurice McCabe, they should be ostracized in politics for many years.


  • #59
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,775 ✭✭✭Allinall


    littelady wrote: »
    I disagree being a doctor shows his intelligence.

    You'll never get through to the naysayers and begrudgers, who know f all about politics.


  • #60
    Edward M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭Edward M


    Just checking this, does anyone know if this is possible.
    SF will table a motion of no confidence in Fitzgerald, FF have said they may table their own, does that mean two separate motions?


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  • #61
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Jawgap wrote: »
    SF are just the noisy kids in the garden while the adults are inside talking.

    No one really pays them that much heed and certainly FF aren't going to follow their lead.

    Plus FF know they'll suffer the retribution of the electorate if they trigger an election - I sincerely doubt this is a hill they're willing to die on.

    So you think the allegations against the Minister for Justice are childsplay?the corruption in this countries justice system looks as if it runs from bottom of the rung Gardai all the way up to the Justice Minister and you see an attempt to rectify this as childsplay. Please stay out of politics or any public departments because your lack of patriotism and your corrupt mindset is exactly what this country doesn't need.


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