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Will Ireland ever have a Polish taoiseach?

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  • #32
    southsiderosie
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    Millicent wrote: »
    LMAO! I don't really understand why anyone wouldn't want a foreign or foreign descended Taoiseach when the above described 70% of the indigenous politicians we have currently. Baffling.

    I met some really impressive Polish political organizers when I lived in Dublin. A few of them had been approached about running for local office, and they wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Actually, the best of the bunch was planning on heading back to Poland; he was fed up with Ireland.
    senordingdong wrote: »
    Like Leo Varadkar?

    Ha! You know, I wasn't even thinking of him when I wrote that, but if the shoe fits...


  • #33
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Polish Political Party
    http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtpvkwo2nDBKmb7dbYlsM5MzhfyA

    Polish MP for Wroclaw and Silesia
    http://polandian.home.pl/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/doda.jpg

    Mary Coughlan our Tanaiste (Deputy Taoiseach)
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/21/article-1058823-0131465600000578-509_233x258.jpg

    I for one welcome our new Polish overlords and hopefully it will be a woman Taoiseach.


  • #34
    admiralofthefleet
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    we had a polish head of state during the 70' and 80' so i dont see why not


  • #35
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    There was also a certain American of Spanish-Cuban descent in the Aras during the sixties.


  • #36
    Owen
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    Stinicker wrote: »
    Polish MP for Wroclaw and Silesia
    http://polandian.home.pl/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/doda.jpg

    That's Doda. Basically Poland's hottest woman/popstar who's a complete bimbo and everyone loves her for it. Not a politican.


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  • #37
    jackiebaron
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    CorkMan wrote: »
    What with the amount of foreigners coming in. It seems "the thing" in America ATM. Schwarzenegger being Governor of California, Obama president of America. I'm sure there are others in recent multi-cultural societies.

    I wonder if we will get a Polish taoiseach?

    What?


  • #38
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Sanjuro wrote: »
    Christ. That's one of the stupidest things I've seen on boards in a long time

    Yup. And that's no mean feat


  • #39
    senordingdong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Polish Political Party
    http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtpvkwo2nDBKmb7dbYlsM5MzhfyA

    Polish MP for Wroclaw and Silesia
    http://polandian.home.pl/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/doda.jpg

    Mary Coughlan our Tanaiste (Deputy Taoiseach)
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/21/article-1058823-0131465600000578-509_233x258.jpg

    I for one welcome our new Polish overlords and hopefully it will be a woman Taoiseach.

    Ex Ukrainian PM...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko

    Gimme dat...


  • #40
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    PaintDoctor wrote: »
    That's Doda. Basically Poland's hottest woman/popstar who's a complete bimbo and everyone loves her for it. Not a politican.

    She could be some day, also people here were not supposed to know that when I googled, Hot Polish Babes.


  • #41
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    I reckon we wont have a Polish one. My bet is a Slovakian one from Banska Bystrica.


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  • #42
    jackiebaron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭jackiebaron


    CorkMan wrote: »
    First off, he is half-white and half-black. (and African-Americas making up a substantial part of the American population BTW).

    A Kenyan official told a British newspaper he was born in Kenya, that is what I base my information on.


    He wasn't born in Kenya. You cannot become the President of the US unless you are a natural born US citizen..i.e. born in the US. The whole Kenya thing is a fücking hoax. It's purely a smear campaign BECAUSE he's black. Funny how the very people who are smearing him are the same twats who supported McCain.....who definitely WASN'T born in the US but in Panama.
    See that Kenyan birth cert that some muppet revealed as being Obama's birth cert? It read "Republic of Kenya". Only problem was that the "Republic of Kenya" didn't exist in 1961, the year that Obama was born. It was then still a Dominion of the British Crown. If you're going to forge evidence to perpetuate a hoax at least get the fundamentals of your smear campaign right.


  • #43
    Predator_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Predator_


    Will Poland ever have an Irish prime minister?


  • #44
    AAAAAAAHHH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 377 ✭✭AAAAAAAHHH


    CorkMan wrote: »
    First off, he is half-white and half-black. (and African-Americas making up a substantial part of the American population BTW).

    A Kenyan official told a British newspaper he was born in Kenya, that is what I base my information on.

    Well a man told me that he was Satan. What do you say to that? If only there was some form of record of where he was born. Some certificate. A birth certificate if you will.


  • #45
    KeithAFC
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    Dunjohn wrote: »
    We already have a Northerner for President.
    controversial...


  • #46
    kfallon
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    If you can't pronounce it you shouldn't be it......


  • #47
    Millicent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    kfallon wrote: »
    If you can't pronounce it you shouldn't be it......

    "Tea-shock." Seriously? That's the entire criteria? Sign me up now!

    Or are you insinuating that because someone is foreign they can't learn two syllables? Cos that would be a bit of a ridiculous comment, wouldn't you agree?


  • #48
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    Especially when it's Polish we're talking about, here.


  • #49
    Millicent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    Dunjohn wrote: »
    Especially when it's Polish we're talking about, here.

    I don't get you?


  • #50
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Millicent wrote: »
    "Tea-shock." Seriously? That's the entire criteria? Sign me up now!

    Or are you insinuating that because someone is foreign they can't learn two syllables? Cos that would be a bit of a ridiculous comment, wouldn't you agree?

    I find myself leaning towards a th-ee-shuck pronunciation but then I come from the better area of the Marble City. :D


  • #51
    DonJose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭DonJose


    I can't see us ever having a Polish taoiseach, but I would love to contract the Polish airforce to fly our current taoiseach around!!!


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  • #52
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    Millicent wrote: »
    I don't get you?

    There are words in Polish that put the apparent difficulty of pronuncing "taoiseach" to shame. So that's hardly a criterion for exclusion.


  • #53
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    lol @ OP, mega thread fail mate :p

    I don't think we'll have a Polish Taoiseach, sure aren't all the Polish heading home? There's surely more jobs there than in Ireland :confused:


  • #54
    Millicent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    Dunjohn wrote: »
    There are words in Polish that put the apparent difficulty of pronuncing "taoiseach" to shame. So that's hardly a criterion for exclusion.

    Ah, I get you now. :) And yeah, seriously. I've tried to learn a little bit of Polish from colleagues but dear God! the pronunciation is shockingly hard for some words.


  • #55
    RichTea
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    gonedrinking wrote: »
    I'm talking about the Polish in Ireland, no Polish serious about politics is going to be running for office here.

    Based on your username, did you have a few scoops before coming up with this thread?


  • #56
    Rockery Woman
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    I think there is a strong possibility we will have a Polish Taoiseach in the future.

    But they will probably be second generation Polish (ie born in Ireland to Polish parents)

    I can't see our current pack of gombeens being replaced for a while, but I can imagine people of Polish origin growing up in this country not only getting involved in politics, but GAA and all sorts of typical Irish activities.

    And I really believe - thats a very good thing!:D


  • #57
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    Well we've already had an American Taoiseach and President.


  • #58
    DB10
    Site Banned Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭DB10


    Get a load of young female models into cabinet like Berlusconi does in Italy. Then we have a reason to watch all the politics, prime time stuff etc.


  • #59
    DB10
    Site Banned Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭DB10


    Rockery Woman wrote: »
    I think there is a strong possibility we will have a Polish Taoiseach in the future.

    But they will probably be second generation Polish (ie born in Ireland to Polish parents)

    I can't see our current pack of gombeens being replaced for a while, but I can imagine people of Polish origin growing up in this country not only getting involved in politics, but GAA and all sorts of typical Irish activities.

    And I really believe - thats a very good thing!:D

    The Polish men might want to give up their steriods before taking on GAA.


  • #60
    Millicent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    RichTea wrote: »
    Based on your username, did you have a few scoops before coming up with this thread?

    He's not the OP! :pac:


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  • #61
    R0ot
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    Confab wrote: »
    Racist thread of the year. How is Obama not American? Because he's black?

    No, because he's a Democrat. :pac:

    EDIT: Also who cares what Nationality the Taoiseach is, how about just having a fecking good Taoiseach! We should start behaving like soccer teams and recruit better leaders from abroad when our current one sucks.


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