FrancieBrady wrote: » You can pretend that the moral high grounding about the Shinners is principle led...it isn't of course, it is all about power, and letting go of it.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/fianna-f%C3%A1il-reaction-martin-opens-door-to-government-with-fg-or-sf-1.4167246https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/election-2020/martin-opens-the-door-to-coalition-with-sinn-fein-38941313.html They need to seek forgiveness for representing the people better than another party now?
StackSteevens wrote: » Because they haven't got enough seats! and no sensible non-SF politician - other than the sneaking regarders on the republican fringes of FF - would touch them with a bargepole! Dancing with SF is a mug's game - just look at what they did to the SDLP north of the border.
StackSteevens wrote: » He may not be all that intelligent, but I have to admire Sinn Féin's very own Duracell Bunny's stamina!
FrancieBrady wrote: » What about Jim O'Callaghan...is he 'not intelligent' enough?https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/martin-under-fire-as-ocallaghan-opens-the-door-to-sinn-fein-39027236.html Give it up, claiming nobody will touch them with a barge pole is the usual nonsense. If it is politically expedient there won't be a problem.
dundalkfc10 wrote: » Working with FG has worked wonders for parties over the years alright
FrancieBrady wrote: » Where is our intrepid forensic team and our 'outraged' boardsie's this morning? https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/trio-fine-gael-tds-spotted-18347005
StackSteevens wrote: » When it eventually happens you have my full permission to visit the graveyard where I'll be interred (it's in West Cork - near Skibb.) and scribble "I told ya so" on my headstone.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Rather than coming up with ever more fanciful nonsense, would it not be handier to just say you were talking said 'nonsense' about bargepoles and that it will happen as soon as FG FF realise they aren't the chosen people anymore. Martin would be in there woth SF now with his party's blessing only that he realised he didnt have the seat numbers to demand the Taoiseach job.
JeffKenna wrote: » Good looking women in fairness. Good spot.
StackSteevens wrote: » Think about it some more, Francie. In the same afternoon you could visit Béal na Bláth, Crossbarry, the site of the Kilmichael Ambush, the famine museum in Skibb before relieving yourself on my gravestone! Shure you'd be beside yourself with republican glee!
Bishop of hope wrote: » Not disagreeing with your point, but funny the three you picked and your reference to them as cartoon characters. I look at another party with an unmentioned leader and for some reason after reading your post Betty boop popped into my head, not sure why, not really a fair comparison, but she appeared in my subliminal window.
StackSteevens wrote: » Sorry pet, but my Boards.ie contract doesn't require me to do your thinking for you.
markodaly wrote: » Telephoto lens compressing the appearence of distance, shtick. Pesudo journalism 101.https://fstoppers.com/news/are-telephoto-lenses-creating-fake-news-people-ignoring-social-distancing-481758
Bowie wrote: » Look having voted for Enda in 2011 in the genuine belief FG were the best option suited to drag us back from the FF created brink.....
Bowie wrote: » .... I voted FG as best suited to look after things after FF's mess. And lo, FG bring FF to the table with a few sweet deals and a shiny new quango. I'd rather vote for Gino ffs.
Private hospital deal 'poor value for money' - Irish Hospital Consultants Association The Irish Hospital Consultants Association has said that private hospital agreement, which is costing around €115m per month, represents very poor value for money from patient care and taxpayer perspectives. In his opening statement to the Dáil Special Committee on Covid-19 Response, Martin Varley, Secretary General of the IHCA, said there has been a "very low" private hospital bed capacity occupancy at around one third on average. Mr Varley said the private hospital contract is prohibiting the provision of urgent care required by patients with non-Covid illnesses. He said this is leading to the accumulation on waiting lists of a large number of patients who require urgent care. Mr Varley warned there is now the additional risk that these patients will deteriorate clinically and will increasingly evolve into emergency cases if they are not treated without delay. He called for the contract with private hospitals to be brought to an end and the savings achieved utilised to put increased capacity in place for public hospitals. Meanwhile, the Irish Medical Organisation CEO Susan Clyne has told the committee that it is untenable to continue with historic deficits in manpower and bed capacity in the context of increasing waiting lists.https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0602/1144866-dail-covid-19-committee/
dundalkfc10 wrote: » Until FG change from Leo the populist the young will never vote for them. Might have got away with it years ago, but with social media etc them days are over. A clear example of it 2010. Leo's big Speech against Same Sex Parents 2013. Referendum announced for 2015 2015. Leo supports Marriage Referendum Or is he just a nacissist who will blame everyone else for his own populist actions?
FrancieBrady wrote: » I like to see people in denial...but most of all I love to see FG and FF people in denial and especially when they have to fantasise because they cannot deny the facts.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » You are trying too hard dude, could be the heat, have a lie down, you are failing miserably.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Same here F, love the wind swishing thru my lock up on the heathery hills watching my tankers haul many liters of the good stuff haul ass across the ‘bauder’ Another bundle of ‘tax free’ isteach mo phoca mar a deirtear, I whisper to mesel. Aye..... good times...for sure...better make sure Butty gets his cut .
dundalkfc10 wrote: » Think it was FG who failed in Govt since 2011 and thats why they are now the 3rd most popular party in Ireland.
Bowie wrote: » So it was an empty meaningless comment. Understood.
christy c wrote: » Dont think it's fair to say they failed in government. They failed in some areas, did ok in others and did well in others. It they had totally failed, they would not be only 2 seats away from the biggest party.
StackSteevens wrote: » Their biggest error was their inability to magic thousands of social houses into being overnight. What puzzles me is that when (if) the Greens share power with them, this will immediately become possible!
Bowie wrote: » If you are in the minority of people unaffected by the housing, homelessness, health crises, you might think that way, but surely, even if bereft of any empathy, a logical mind would acknowledge their failings out weigh their ability to take out a generational loan. For totally failed I suppose we'd need look at their senior partner of choice Fianna Fail.
