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Senior government member flies to GAA game in state helicopter

  • 17-06-2009 12:59PM
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭


    Apparently its the Tanasite but thats open to correction.


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  • #2
    Mr.David
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭Mr.David


    I'm hurling with discust :P


  • #3
    Mr.David
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭Mr.David


    Maybe Harney had to be airlifted into croker?


  • #4
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Have you seen traffic on a match day?

    Fair fcuks to her if she can get away with it.


  • #5
    enniscorthy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭enniscorthy


    OH HEY LISTEN DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED PROBABLY MARTIN CULLEN AGAIN


  • #6
    Schism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    Did I hear it wrong or are they claiming that the helicopter was going that way anyway?

    Ha! It's not a feicin minibus.


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  • #7
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    I think next time I see the state helicopter I will shot it down with a long puck with my sliotar and hurley. Hurleys make good rat killing tools so FF TD/Rat no difference to me, actually I have more respect for the rat.


  • #8
    Captain-America
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭Captain-America


    Mary Harney isn't Táiniste anymore.


  • #9
    mathie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭mathie


    enniscorthy wrote: »
    OH HEY LISTEN DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED PROBABLY MARTIN CULLEN AGAIN

    I'm in full agreement.

    If you're willing to shout and not use punctuation it must be pretty damned important.


  • #10
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    netwhizkid wrote: »
    I think next time I see the state helicopter I will shot it down with a long puck with my sliotar and hurley. Hurleys make good rat killing tools so FF TD/Rat no difference to me, actually I have more respect for the rat.

    Or you could try shooting it down.
    A rifle might work a bit better too.


  • #11
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    I heard it was a gold helicopter filled with hospital beds stuffed with our pension money.

    Anyone confirm this?


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  • #12
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    I heard it was a gold helicopter filled with hospital beds stuffed with our pension money.

    Anyone confirm this?
    I can, I read it in an online article or something. Here's the link.


  • #13
    seabee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 707 ✭✭✭seabee


    It was the president - she attended the connacht football final last year


  • #14
    Ardscoil Ris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭Ardscoil Ris


    My word, how dull.


  • #15
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    humanji wrote: »
    I can, I read it in an online article or something. Here's the link.

    Cheers.

    Why can't I thank that guy's post though? He seems to know what's what.


  • #16
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    seabee wrote: »
    It was the president - she attended the connacht football final last year

    El presidente? I know she's a nationalist and all but she never struck me as a GAA head.


  • #17
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    Disgrace. Joe Duffy will hear about this.


  • #18
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    What do ya honestly expect when folk still vote the schisters back again and again!


  • #19
    Euro_Kraut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭Euro_Kraut


    Who does she think she is?? The President??

    She presents the cup at the Connacht final every year as far as I know. Michael Ring may be a bit embarrassed by this. She is not a 'senior member of the government' and more than anyone else I can think of should be able to use to state helicopter on offical business.


  • #20
    Gaillimh Abu!!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭Gaillimh Abu!!


    What a tool, the least he could have done is have a wee bit of research done.... Not hard to do either, as everybody at the match knew it was Our President.

    If our President cant use our Helicopters, it dosent say much for our nation...

    Thats whats wrong with this country to many government bashers, and moaning. Nothing to do with the fact that to many silly people on inadequate wages thought that they were entitlet to huge morgages, loans and holidays because Mr & Mrs Jones next door were getting them.

    People have to accept responsibility for their own situation and their own dept......


  • #21
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Biggins wrote: »
    What do ya honestly expect when folk still vote the schisters back again and again!

    She wasn't voted in for her second term (but yeah I see your point!)


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  • #22
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Gaillimh Abu!! wrote: »
    Thats whats wrong with this country to many government bashers, and moaning. Nothing to do with the fact that to many silly people on inadequate wages thought that they were entitlet to huge morgages, loans and holidays because Mr & Mrs Jones next door were getting them.

    ..

    Totally OT but "silly people on inadequate wages" always wanted mortgages loans etc but the banks were stricter...


  • #23
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    mike65 wrote: »
    El presidente? I know she's a nationalist and all but she never struck me as a GAA head.

    Yeah, the shame of it. An Irish woman, watching an Irish sport. Crazy stuff.


  • #24
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    What a bitch. How dare she use a helicopter!

    she should have rode a bike down to it to keep that commie j higgins and his mob happy.


  • #25
    tolosenc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


    dlofnep wrote: »
    [a]n Irish woman

    Isn't she from the North?


    /runs away


  • #26
    projectmayhem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,421 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    snyper wrote: »
    What a bitch. How dare she use a helicopter!

    she should have rode a bike down to it to keep that commie j higgins and his mob happy.

    +1

    Though realistically I can see why Bono would use a helicopter. I wouldn't even recognise most of our "leaders". They can use the train. While Bertie was in power he wandered into the cafe in the botanic gardens for lunch with 2 big looking lads. I'm sure some heavies could clear out some space for el presidente. She'd be able to use it for political banter about being green and all that...


  • #27
    AnonoBoy
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    Biggins wrote: »
    What do ya honestly expect when folk still vote the schisters back again and again!

    The schisters of mercy?


  • #28
    Gaillimh Abu!!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭Gaillimh Abu!!


    obl wrote: »
    Isn't she from the North?


    /runs away


    Every person born on the island of Ireland before 1 January, 2005 is entitled to be an Irish citizen.

    The North is Irish....;)


  • #29
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    obl wrote: »
    Isn't she from the North?


    /runs away

    of Ireland, why yes she is. Don't stop running..


  • #30
    DubMedic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭DubMedic


    Let's not give her hassle if she took a ride in a DF Helicopter to go to a game.
    If we need McAleese in the future to Dilute the Dáil ( which she has the power to do , correct if wrong ) , then we had better stop hassling her.

    This helicopter fiasco is the first wrong thing she has came under the spotlight for in a number of years, and she has even displayed her disgust at the abuse scandal.

    Give the woman a break, she is probably the only politician in this country that's not taking backhanders.

    .


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  • #31
    upmeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭upmeath


    Are there any reliable published articles citing McAleese as the "culprit"? Because Mickey Ring seemed to be playing with his cards close to his chest yesterday, he wasn't saying much and named nobody.


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