Eggs and cheese thrown at Mary Harney's car

Snakeblood · 12-11-2010 03:43PM

Sparkyd2002 wrote: »

Im not Harneys biggest fan but I do admire her for sticking to her guns and continuing to do what is a very difficult Job.health ministry is poisoned chalice as far as Im concerned and its a job i wouldnt do for all the money in the world.that said she is responsible for the inception of the HSE but I dont think even she could have imagined how difficult it was going to be to fight the machine she effectively inherited.unfortunately the years that all that extra money was pumped into the health service it was effectively swallowed by the policy making pencil pushers who so effectively feathered their own nests and will now get the ultimate payoff with redundancy on the table for them....

I'd do it for 75% of what she's getting.

On the second bolded bit, what the **** is she if not a policy making pencil pusher. She doesn't DO anything apart from make policy. But it's not her fault.

WIZE · 12-11-2010 03:43PM

Purple monkey dishwasher

krudler · 12-11-2010 03:43PM

she was probably ragin she didnt have her handbag with the built in frying pan on her at the time.

RoundyMooney · 12-11-2010 03:44PM

I fully support people's right to protest. It's not as if she was put in any physical danger (thankfully), which is more than can be said for those availing of the services for which she has been responsible for the last number of years.

Remember folks, this is the person who presided over the bloated excuse for a health service we have today, who has questionable links to other state bodies, who showed and shows scant regard for efficient use of resources in her own suckling at the expenses teat, who time and time again appeared in the media spouting nonsensical jargon at length while saying nothing at all, interspersed with period of invisibility, who succesfully managed to pass the buck of responsibility to the HSE while still employing the same number of staff in her own department, who managed to kill off her own party while barely scraping in at the last election.

I think a couple of eggs hitting her car shows remarkable restraint, or apathy.

She's a fortunate woman, in that she doesn't live among a more volatile electorate.

ch750536 · 12-11-2010 03:44PM

My name is URL wrote: »

But that's just silly. People aren't being forced to avail of the scheme, and I'm sure that there are in fact people who will be grateful to receive the assistance regardless of it only consisting of cheese.

Look what happened when they did the same in the UK in 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOyQBSMeIhM

senordingdong · 12-11-2010 03:45PM

Maybe they are just offering her the cheese back in the hope that she will stop cutting rural medical services.

tricky D · 12-11-2010 03:46PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

I'd say it's a fair bet that a lot of these protesters are net beneficiaries of the State.

You mean they're bankers??

My name is URL · 12-11-2010 03:54PM

Snakeblood wrote: »

I'm sure there are. I'm sure there are a lot of people who resent being patronised by a government denying them their electoral rights, cutting off services, and then offering them cheese.

I wouldn't do it myself, but if the protest consisted of a few easisingles, then I amn't sure that's an excessive punishment for ****ing this country into a cocked hat.

I know things are worse elsewhere, but hey, I'm here now.

Fair enough, but it's actually an EU initiative, not a FF one.. and it's being happening for 20 odd years now. I agree with what you say about it not being an excessive 'punishment', but I fail to see how it's going to improve anything either.

Snakeblood · 12-11-2010 03:56PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Fair enough, but it's actually an EU initiative, not a FF one.. and it's being happening for 20 odd years now. I agree with what you say about it not being an excessive 'punishment', but I fail to see how it's going to improve anything either.

It's been going on for 20 years, and FF wheeled it out as if it was new because that's the only bit of good news they felt they had in the tank. It feels like being robbed of 20 quid and then the robber gives you some cheese which you owned anyway.

It''s emblematic of their duplicitous conniving underhanded, dishonest, repellent Fianna Fail-ness. It stinks of who they are and what they are as a party.

mikom · 12-11-2010 04:00PM

krudler wrote: »

Harneys in our dreams now?!

You'd want to have a head the size of stewie Griffin.

stimpson · 12-11-2010 04:03PM

"I could do you an omlette."

Sunnyisland · 12-11-2010 04:04PM

Wonder was she eggcited

Sticky_Fingers · 12-11-2010 04:07PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

And what's your contribution to the running of this fine country of ours Leonard.

I'd say it's a fair bet that a lot of these protesters are net beneficiaries of the State.

Much more important news is that the HSE budget for this year is nearly on target.

Maybe Harney can get a few plaudits for plugging the black hole, and bringing these overpaid HSE people to their senses.

Someone get the mop, I think Fluts throne is overflowing again

bonerm · 12-11-2010 04:11PM

Degsy wrote: »

Should be grenades they were throwing at the fat bitch.

She's already been the target of bullets. Unfortunately they came out of an envelope rather than a shotgun.

PanchoVilla · 12-11-2010 04:13PM

mike65 wrote: »

Not funny or silly, its a waste.

Relax. I heard she scraped it all off and made a lovely omelette. It's probably the healthiest thing she's eaten in years, the protesters did her a favor.

mimi7365 · 12-11-2010 04:24PM

It''s emblematic of their duplicitous conniving underhanded, dishonest, repellent Fianna Fail-ness. It stinks of who they are and what they are as a party.[/QUOTE]

So you're not a FF fan then???:rolleyes:

Snakeblood · 12-11-2010 04:26PM

mimi7365 wrote: »

It''s emblematic of their duplicitous conniving underhanded, dishonest, repellent Fianna Fail-ness. It stinks of who they are and what they are as a party.

So you're not a FF fan then???:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

No. Anyone who is at this point I'd rate as subhuman, to be honest. Or incapable of learning.

Irish Guitarist · 12-11-2010 05:41PM

Am I the only person that thinks "what a waste of food" when I hear something like this?

Snakeblood · 12-11-2010 05:43PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Am I the only person that thinks "what a waste of food" when I hear something like this?

Yes, ignore the rest of the page though, it'll make you feel less unique.

maxxie · 12-11-2010 05:46PM

save the food throw bricks

stimpson · 12-11-2010 05:54PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Am I the only person that thinks "what a waste of food" when I hear something like this?

I'm sure Harney was thinking the same thing.

kenneth5 · 12-11-2010 06:39PM

Put a smile on my face anyway. Hopefully Harney will eventually get the message and realise that the people of Ireland are not one bit happy with her handling of the health service in this country.

Is it true she got bullets mailed to her?

FlutterinBantam · 12-11-2010 06:39PM

RoundyMooney wrote: »

She could, if that's what she did.

But she didn't.

How do you make that out Rounders me aul flower?

kincsem · 12-11-2010 06:55PM

Cheese omelette for Mary Harney. Words never heard before today.

kev1.3s · 12-11-2010 06:56PM

maxxie wrote: »

save the food throw bricks

well we have more of them than we know what to do with!

RoundyMooney · 12-11-2010 07:08PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

How do you make that out Rounders me aul flower?

Quite simply, Flutther; Harney didn't plug the black hole, she perpetuated it (insert joke about her gravitational pull here), and neither has she done anything about the runaway costs and wastage within the HSE, which was setup under her remit, and with her direction.

I have 14 Billion reasons to stand by that.

noddyone2 · 12-11-2010 07:12PM

Maybe we Irish are getting ballsy like the French?

orourkeda · 12-11-2010 07:12PM

did she finish them all

kev1.3s · 12-11-2010 07:16PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

I'd say it's a fair bet that a lot of these protesters are net beneficiaries of the State.

A statement like this would of held much more weight during the boom but most people on the dole que's now are there because they had the rug pulled from under they're feet by a Government that introduced public spending that was a burden even when tax receipts were high. I say hats off to them and they should be shown some support because this Government will walk all over the working class if we don't show some solidarity.

I mean E.U. surplus cheese ant going to heat our homes this winter!

Ave Nocturna · 12-11-2010 07:16PM

Bahahahaha! According to one of their signs, Harney is the "Angle of death"

She's no acute angle anyway, I guess

Eggs and cheese thrown at Mary Harney's car

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