No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

what’s with your chip on the shoulder about the man. Almost sounds personal

It's all mostly begrudgery, You get very few sensible proposals from the general public ,

I Hope, like me, that Coveney has learnt to ignore all the rubbish

What ever he does next I wish the man luck. We are fast running out of capable people to run our country. The party missed a trick in choosing their last leader and I’ve a feeling the new man won’t steady the ship either

Harris is the fall guy for the next election, the mass exodus of sitting tds announcing they weren’t running again ever before Leo stood down…the writing was on the wall for a poor election next time around. Take the hit and when they start to rebuild Harris will get over thrown fairly swiftly.

The Killeshin/Jersey milkis now available in dunnes ive seen recently powerful stuff altogether. Black label bottle. I find with it too that the bottle nearly swells up a bit a day before the best before date i reckon its because its not processed near as much as the conventional stuff.

Coveney always seems a square decent sort of a lad, I’d say he’d be reliable to have in your corner, probably not exciting enough to make party leader, maybe if he was in a lesser party.

FG seem to be faltering now and with an election on the cards it’s not a good time. I suppose back to their roots of a city party, there was never much in them for country folk.

Is it likely next government would need to be a FF/SF/FG coalition. I presume nobody with brain cells would give the Greens a vote.

Eh? Sorry Simon, I was only joking, didn't realise it actually was you! I hope you didn't get mountainy lambs anyway?

Are you replying to someone else or thinking of some other post? I was replying to post that ended with "Discuss", I didn't realise only eulogies were allowed.

And running who down? I didn't say one word about his personality or integrity, only his ability and lifestyle. As for everyone???

Two examples of Simon in office,

As minister for ag he brought in supposedly temporary emergency rendering restrictions that handed control of the Irish beef industry to Larry Goodman.

As Minister for Housing, he had 64 meetings with the construction industry representatives, and 3 with social housing groups.

I was obviously never too impressed with Simon, and contrary to other some opinions expressed I'd say he'd have done alright in regular life but without the confidence, connections, and opportunities his background could have granted him, I couldn't have seen him set the world alight as some predicted.

Any politician I've come across who had business acumen had no issue running the two side by side, but most aren't up to much more than any normal Joe.

I'm actually quite happy to praise politicians and have defended individuals from cheap characters shots here a few times, but maybe not the right ones for you?

BTW I've given 30 odd years as a volunteer here in social, sports, agricultural, advisory, and development organisations thanks for asking, but assume and throw muck away for yourself.

Your Yorkie bar joke is around since I was a child and as you know about his yacht trip why didn’t you say why he went on it as you seem to know a lot about the man. As I said it sounds personal

Like the meath farmers being the cream of irish farming …….Rich and Thick.

I'll get my coat

He got a lot of money for charity out of that trip as well as it being his hobby

At least they put themselves forward for the positions.

They have to be admired for dealing with the general level of the Irish Population, the abuse, and the destructiveness of people, you can have nothing nice in this country.

That's an old joke about meath farmers, I was at a wedding in meath fifty years ago where the rector said in his speech that the family were the cream of the country etc etc so the joke is that old

Clear test this morning thankfully

MMy fear is that we will rue the squandering of the Corp tax. Has anyone seen those figures lately?

I heard someone say being Smart does not mean being Intelligent. And being Intelligent only means you can be Intelligent in one way as there's different types of Intelligence.

I wasn't sure if he was being Smart or Intelligent with that so put it down to being Wise.

Only one real auld fella working on site with us hed be 60 plus then one fella in his 50s and three in there 40s out of a team of 30 the rest of us are under 40 with a good few of us under 30 aswell even. Today when the real auld fella knocks off at 1630 most of us will stay going till 1800 after being here since 0700 this morning, the auld fella clocking in at 8. Looks to me the younger generation are carrying this job from what i can see. Its on the road for 0530 here with me every morning and usually 1900-1930 ubtil im back moat evenings. N

All playing anyway hard for any of us to be winning with the way the countrys being ran. Im definitly not winning, 4 years back working in the country this month and im not entitled to the PRSI benefits, ive paid €300 in tax most weeks this year so far an awful lot to be paying into a pot that i get nothing out of. Not to mention delays n getting qualified which is leaving me out of pocket all due to bad management and organisation from pen pushers working for government agencies, if they had to suffer the same % on their loss of earnings as the delayed apprentices they wouldnt be long getting it back on track. Tis no wonder most of us with no major committments to here are going to be getting on a plane out of here next year.

Landed home in April 2020, government imposed lockdowns meant i wasnt allowed start the job i had lined up. Had a job to get home, government were of no assistance whatsoever and i wasnt entitled to any assistance when i did get home. Door was left wide open for two years here and plenty of assistance provided to the new arrivals who landed here. That prick varadkar even had the cheek a few years back to say he was all about the people that get up early in the morning, hes helped create a reliance on social welfare before he packed it in.

And climb in the window when you've them off?🤔

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Seriously that's always my q about outside wellie stands, how to get in and out of them with dry feet.

You could put it inside or leave your slippers upside down on it while you're wearing the wellies.

Wash them...

The woman is simply telling ye lads, not to be bringing yere muddy boots into the house. Whelan is being too subtle, with the message😁

Most dairy farmers don't get dirty wellies in any case.

Moccasin's are more than adequate around the yard

That was some finish to the Chelsea Manchester United game, worth staying up for