No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Don’t know why it’s sideways sorry

He might turn up here too of course, he's a farm manager by trade afaik.

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.

Hard to beat a set of 'bottle tits' eh patsy. 😃

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.