nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Charles Haughey Has Died + Poll

constitutionus

just like it says, died today around a quater to 11 aged 80 , just wondering what you thought?

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

Lonely Or Lazy

No Way

scumbag tbh but RIP

r3nu4l

Here's the link:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0613/haugheyc.html

Never speak ill of the dead.

That said, he was corrupt and a cut-throat.

RIP

super_furry

I won't cry any tears for him.

padi89

Jezz he was ill a long time.Well he certainly made his mark and wont be forgotten.I guess all his mistakes are insignificant now,RIP.

Femelade

just heard it on the news. he died of prostate cancer an hour ago.

i have no thoughts on it though, cos i'm not bothered.

Funsterdelux

Best of a bad bunch, still though you have got to love him, sure who wasnt/isnt corrupt in politics.
Tell me that and I'll vote for them.

Villain

May he rest in peace, and I hope his family get time and space to mourn him.

On a political note he should not recieve a state funeral, he may have done a lot for this country but he did the majority of it corruptly for his own rewards.

Ruu_Old

Rest in peace

Shabadu

I think it's an absolute disgrace that he's getting a State Funeral. I know protocol demands it, but it still leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Still, much as I detest the man, I hope his family are coping.

Mossy Monk

Funsterdelux wrote:

Best of a bad bunch, still though you have got to love him

absolutely not. he was scum

super_furry

I retract that earlier statement. I am deeply upset and demand that we have a public day of mourning for one of our greatest leaders.

Really.

layke

Gangstaarrrrr.

All he needed was his own rap record deal.

Ardent

Funsterdelux wrote:

Best of a bad bunch, still though you have got to love him, sure who wasnt/isnt corrupt in politics.

Typical Irish attitude to the malaise of this country.

Dyr

Wonder if he left instructions to be buried in a charvet shirt as a final two finger's to this country?

It's very hard to be sympathetic to the Haugheys but RIP

Funsterdelux

Mossy Monk wrote:

absolutely not. he was scum

Scum like cream in this society rises to the top.

Pighead

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2805019&postcount=23

Thats two down 3 to go. Almost a year to the day as well. Just call me nostrapigheadus.

Mr.D.Leprachaun

In fairness to him he was a very competant minister and did a great job of Minister for Justice before the corruption started. That said he can't be forgiven the corruption.

constitutionus

Mr.D.Leprachaun wrote:

did a great job of Minister for Justice before the corruption started.

lol, only in ireland could you get away with a statement like that:D brilliant!

that said theyre already lionising the guy. its like when he resigned all over again. we all know he was a crook but even in death no ones the balls to say it. and people wonder why were apathetic about politics

Funsterdelux

Fair enough I was only yanking yis r chains, I be too young to remember when he was in his hayday, I have only what i have learned from news reports and the back of sugar packets to go on.

TBH couldnt give two fiddlers either, still he was more of a celeb over the last 10 years, you dont see Dick Spring in the news every week.

Terry

Femmy wrote:

just heard it on the news. he died of prostate cancer an hour ago.

i have no thoughts on it though, cos i'm not bothered.

prostate cancer?
so he finally got fucked in the ass.
fitting death.

condolences to his family.

Villain

CJ Haughey has died, do you believe he should get a state funeral?

Dragan

padi89 wrote:

I guess all his mistakes are insignificant now,RIP.

Why, because he died???

I'm sorry for his family who i am sure loved him and will miss him, but he wronged a nation, so f*ck him.

The only bad thing is they offered the guy a state funeral.....just more tax money gone astray.

Archeron

Yes, I think so. He may not have been the nicest or the most popular of people, but he was still An Taoiseach, so we should show respect for that at least.

Dragan

Voting no.

More tax money gone on a state funeral for that f*cking thief????

Load of bollox if you ask me.

As i said in another thread, i'm sure his family loved him and will miss him, but he wronged a nation and in my opinion never paid the price.

Now out tax money is gonna be spent so Bertie can stand there and ignore the fact that he was a scumbag???

Come back St Patrick, there still snakes in Ireland.:rolleyes:

super_furry

Only if we get a day off work to mourn*.

*Mourning may involve spending the day in the pub.

joe_chicken

I think it should definitely be a state funeral, the man was a great leader and an example to us all...

On a completely unrelated note: we do get a day off for state funerals, don't we?

BoozyBabe

No.

Ruu_Old

Im in the no camp also.

constitutionus

Dragan wrote:

The only bad thing is they offered the guy a state funeral.....just more tax money gone astray.

actually AFAIk they dont have a choice, as an ex taoiseach he's entitled to one wheather the nation supports one or not. im dying to see what happens in the dail. Fianna Fail spent alot of time recently trying to rehabilitate haughey image (which from as far as i can tell hasnt worked, most of us still see him as a crook:D ) and then he up and dies on em!
the state funeral should be fun. of course the usuall FF flunkies will be out but how big of a turnout do you think he'll get?