Redsquigy wrote: » Yes I am on the dole and have been since last February after working all my life, (since I was 17) I am now 52. I have paid into the tax system, paid for childcare, paid my mortgage, etc. and unfortunately through no fault of mine was made redundant. I have never claimed off the State before and when I was working I did go out and have a few pints at the weekend and will again when I find a job, have never been afraid of hard work, all my bills are paid up to date and I owe nothing to anybody. So I am not sniffing as you put it just merely making an observation as I am quite entitled to do.
mike kelly wrote: » is this photo real? if so, will the girls in it please ring Liveline!!
gonedrinking wrote: » I'm sorry I got to stop you right there chief. Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. Whats the dole situation at the minute- is 9% or 10% of the working population unemployed? That'll mostly be made up of students who have come out of university and don't have any experience yet. There's no excuse for someone of your age to be unemployed for long. We are all in control of our own destiny. But I guess its easier to just sit back in your armchair and blame someone else for your problems.
mickydoomsux wrote: » irelandsbestandbrightest.jpg
louloubella wrote: » I listened to him and strained to hear the difference in his usual dialogue with the public- drenched in apathy and lethargy when asked a basic question. He sounded as dull/uninsightful/vexed at being questioned as ever. Did anyone see him on Prime Time last week? What a disgrace.:mad: It is simply not good enough to say it was TOO early for the man.
gonedrinking wrote: » I'm sorry I got to stop you right there chief. Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you.
gonedrinking wrote: » There's no excuse for someone of your age to be unemployed for long. We are all in control of our own destiny. But I guess its easier to just sit back in your armchair and blame someone else for your problems.
elviscostello wrote: » moar here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67997141&postcount=50
SeaFields wrote: » As a matter of interest is Dan Boyle twitting gadget broken or something? The silence from the greens on this issue is deafening.
mike kelly wrote: » those are real photos? God help us!
hotmail.com wrote: » Only in Ireland would you have people defending the leader of the country appearing on a national radio programme drunk and/or hungover. I don't care that other people have shown up for work drunk or hungover. Perhaps it says something about our expectations of our politicians.
questioner wrote: » . incredibly naive sentiment. our ida welcomed factories to these shores for thirty years, people who worked there often received (through no fault of their own) no transferable skills. Unsurprisingly these factories have now relocated - leaving huge swathes of PAYE workers " sitting back in their Armchairs". condescending motivational speaker talk does little to help the reality of their situation. on topic. ?
aDeener wrote: » thats because he was neither drunk nor hungover :rolleyes:
iceman7 wrote: » the man apparently had 8 pints of carlsberg according to a media scource.
Ash.J.Williams wrote: » That's lazy talk, I started a new job 5 years ago, it's fairly mundane and I became concerned that my cv may be lacking in the future as competition for jobs increased, so i started a degree. Next year i'l have it. If you're in a job and not gaining transferable skills, it's up to YOU to get those skills. If college isn't your thing there were lots of government sponsered fas courses to attend.
snuggles285 wrote: » So is it the case that our taoiseach is either a not a morning person who has a bad case of grumpiness in the mornings or is it that we have a drunken or hungover taoiseach running the country? :eek:
snuggles285 wrote: » So is it the case that our taoiseach is either a not a morning person who has a bad case of grumpiness
Interviewer: One of the key elements of the Government’s strategy, the Croke Park Agreement, was criticised earlier in the programme by Leo Varadkar, who said that very little had been done to implement it. When are we going to see the kind of flexibility, the mobility, the big changes in the way the civil service, public service, works that that agreement promised? BC: Well what’s going to happen now of course is, what people need to know is for next year we’re beginning discussions…what we have to do is align the estimates campaign with the industrial relations agenda. And what that’ll involve is where every department is setting out a [unclear] on the amount it’ll be able to have next year. It will be dealing with its on management and its own personnel and its own staff over coming months explaining that simply we have to get more from less, we want to avoid impact on those who…it’s during the course of this estimates campaign that we’ll be ending up with the situation where the allocations that will be made will require the implementation in many respects of the Good Friday of the, ah, sorry, the Croke Park Agreement, which is about redeployment, which is about better work practices…
admiralofthefleet wrote: » anyone have any funny shooped pics?
anyone have any funny shooped pics?
