Enda Kenny and that racial slur

Cathaoirleach · 23-02-2011 12:38AM

Enda has shut down his enda.kenny@oireachtas.irlgov.ie account.

How can I email the next Taioseach of this country? It is impossible.

My email to Enda:

"Fine Gael want to demote the Irish Language and eventually eradicate it from schools, and make Ireland a utopian English region.

I have never heard such an anti-Irish policy in my life. Abolish Irish from the Leaving Cert? How dare you. How dare you put forward such a policy against our own culture.

In my eyes, Fine Gael want to eradicate the Irish culture for their own financial interests.

You have lost many, many votes because of your anti-Irish policy. I will never vote for Fine Gael again.

If you try to demote my native language, Enda, I will do everything in my power to stop you.

You are a traitor, Enda, and you want to eradicate the Irish language for you own financial gain.

We will not allow this to happen."

Cathaoirleach · 23-02-2011 12:40AM

http://i.imgur.com/pMpoi.jpg

easyeason3 · 23-02-2011 12:41AM

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

Enda has shut down his enda.kenny@oireachtas.irlgov.ie account.

How can I email the next Taioseach of this country? It is impossible.

My email to Enda:

"Fine Gael want to demote the Irish Language and eventually eradicate it from schools, and make Ireland a utopian English region.

I have never heard such an anti-Irish policy in my life. Abolish Irish from the Leaving Cert? How dare you. How dare you put forward such a policy against our own culture.

In my eyes, Fine Gael want to eradicate the Irish culture for their own financial interests.

You have lost many, many votes because of your anti-Irish policy. I will never vote for Fine Gael again.

If you try to demote my native language, Enda, I will do everything in my power to stop you.

You are a traitor, Enda, and you want to eradicate the Irish language for you own financial gain.

We will not allow this to happen."

Enda's a racist alright.

twinQuins · 23-02-2011 12:41AM

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

Fine Gael want to demote the Irish Language and eventually eradicate it from schools, and make Ireland a utopian English region.

If that's the kind of tripe he's receiving I can understand why he'd shut it down.

UglyBolloxFace · 23-02-2011 12:44AM

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

Enda has shut down his enda.kenny@oireachtas.irlgov.ie account.

How can I email the next Taioseach of this country? It is impossible.

My email to Enda:

"Fine Gael want to demote the Irish Language and eventually eradicate it from schools, and make Ireland a utopian English region.

I have never heard such an anti-Irish policy in my life. Abolish Irish from the Leaving Cert? How dare you. How dare you put forward such a policy against our own culture.

In my eyes, Fine Gael want to eradicate the Irish culture for their own financial interests.

You have lost many, many votes because of your anti-Irish policy. I will never vote for Fine Gael again.

If you try to demote my native language, Enda, I will do everything in my power to stop you.

You are a traitor, Enda, and you want to eradicate the Irish language for you own financial gain.

We will not allow this to happen."

To be honest, it's probably a good thing that email isn't getting through because it makes you look like an uneducated simpleton* - Irish is NOT being abolished; there are plans to make it optional. Why can't you understand that?

*Not calling you a simpleton, just saying it seems like that.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 23-02-2011 12:44AM

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

Enda has shut down his enda.kenny@oireachtas.irlgov.ie account.

How can I email the next Taioseach of this country? It is impossible.

My email to Enda:

"Fine Gael want to demote the Irish Language and eventually eradicate it from schools, and make Ireland a utopian English region.

I have never heard such an anti-Irish policy in my life. Abolish Irish from the Leaving Cert? How dare you. How dare you put forward such a policy against our own culture.

In my eyes, Fine Gael want to eradicate the Irish culture for their own financial interests.

You have lost many, many votes because of your anti-Irish policy. I will never vote for Fine Gael again.

If you try to demote my native language, Enda, I will do everything in my power to stop you.

You are a traitor, Enda, and you want to eradicate the Irish language for you own financial gain.

We will not allow this to happen."

eradicate the irish language? in the same way that irish history and the irish landscape and indeed the laws of science were all eradicated because they are not compulsory??

starbelgrade · 23-02-2011 12:45AM

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

Enda has shut down his enda.kenny@oireachtas.irlgov.ie account.

How can I email the next Taioseach of this country? It is impossible.

My email to Enda:

"Fine Gael want to demote the Irish Language and eventually eradicate it from schools, and make Ireland a utopian English region.

I have never heard such an anti-Irish policy in my life. Abolish Irish from the Leaving Cert? How dare you. How dare you put forward such a policy against our own culture.

In my eyes, Fine Gael want to eradicate the Irish culture for their own financial interests.

You have lost many, many votes because of your anti-Irish policy. I will never vote for Fine Gael again.

If you try to demote my native language, Enda, I will do everything in my power to stop you.

You are a traitor, Enda, and you want to eradicate the Irish language for you own financial gain.

We will not allow this to happen."

Not sure I agree with what you are saying, but anyway...

Enda Kenny's e-mail address is enda.kenny@oireachtas.ie

And his snail mail address is....

Hawthorn Avenue
Lightfort
Castlebar
Co. Mayo

I don't know his phone number, but I'm sure you could look up his constituency office number online.

galwayrush · 23-02-2011 12:47AM

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/pMpoi.jpg

A very sensible and practical policy, i hope they do make it optional. It will not be eradicated , anyone genuinely interested in learning it will still do so, also, i have heard Kenny speak the language on numerous occasions, so he's hardly an enemy of the Irish culture....:D

Back on topic,i'm still trying to see the connection in your post with him saying ****** in 2002....

UglyBolloxFace · 23-02-2011 12:47AM

Gabrielle Petite Slipknot wrote: »

eradicate the irish language? in the same way that irish history and the irish landscape and indeed the laws of science were all eradicated because they are not compulsory??

That's a brilliant point.

By the way, though, isn't science compulsory at Junior Cert level? Or do you mean that it's non-compulsory for LC?

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 23-02-2011 12:48AM

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

That's a brilliant point.

By the way, though, isn't science compulsory at Junior Cert level? Or do you mean that it's non-compulsory for LC?

I meant non-complsory for the lc though it isn't compulsory for the jc either. Most schools do it though

yosemite_sam · 23-02-2011 12:49AM

Gabrielle Petite Slipknot wrote: »

He was re-telling a story he heard from a bar man

He should have kept it between his ears, this type of story will be wheeled out when he is elected by foreign press. We cannot have someone at the helm who expresses views like this joking or not

thegen · 23-02-2011 12:51AM

I love the sure it was nine years ago, sure time heals everything. Martin was taken to task for his Mick Chinese accent and rightly so. Enda had it buried but it was always going to resurface.

galwayrush · 23-02-2011 12:53AM

thegen wrote: »

I love the sure it was nine years ago, sure time heals everything. Martin was taken to task for his Mick Chinese accent and rightly so. Enda had it buried but it was always going to resurface.

I remember reading about it years ago.

UglyBolloxFace · 23-02-2011 12:54AM

yosemite_sam wrote: »

He should have kept it between his ears, this type of story will be wheeled out when he is elected by foreign press. We cannot have someone at the helm who expresses views like this joking or not

Why would the foreign press be electing him?

......Punctuation matters!:pac:

(That is the first, and last, time I'll ever partake in grammar Nazism)

humanji · 23-02-2011 12:57AM

Cathaoirleach wrote: »

Fine Gael want to demote the Irish Language and eventually eradicate it from schools, and make Ireland a utopian English region.

Good news for the vast majority of you here.

I will never vote Fine Gael again because of this.

http://i.imgur.com/pMpoi.jpg

Haters gonna hate.

Bit of an ironically racist post there, isn't it?

yosemite_sam · 23-02-2011 12:57AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

This is actually more likely to win him votes than lose him votes.

It will appeal to the racists.

And to everyone else who is normal, they'll see it for what it is - just a rather daft thing to have said in public.

He would have lost his job any where else

UglyBolloxFace · 23-02-2011 12:59AM

humanji wrote: »

Bit of an ironically racist post there, isn't it?

Where's the racism in his post?

yosemite_sam · 23-02-2011 01:01AM

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

Why would the foreign press be electing him?

......Punctuation matters!:pac:

(That is the first, and last, time I'll ever partake in grammar Nazism)

Thanks for that, foreign press will pick this story up as he has done nothing of any note in 35 years as a TD

Guy:Incognito · 23-02-2011 01:04AM

galwayrush wrote: »

Sacked from what?:pac::pac:

Giving out about stuff

Cosimo Salvatore · 23-02-2011 01:06AM

I can't get over some peoples attitudes in here, it makes me sick, this is an absolute outrage, he is the leader ra raable of finerrr rabble gaerabble RABBLE RABBLE F*CKING RABBLE RABBLE. Rabble, rabble rabble. Rabble.

Nodin · 23-02-2011 01:08AM

It's a sad day when even his fuck ups are useless....I saw him last night being interviewed on TV3...he even did a 'the politics of failure have failed' type line...

sherdydan · 23-02-2011 01:10AM

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Nodin · 23-02-2011 01:17AM

sherdydan wrote: »

over 9000

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Paparazzo · 23-02-2011 01:18AM

Jesus H christ, he said the "n" word almost 10 years ago, who cares? OR was it the "d" word? Same amount of letters.

humanji · 23-02-2011 01:22AM

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

Where's the racism in his post?

He's implying that some of us are less Irish than he is, and as such demoting us to a sub class of human, unequal to himself.

UglyBolloxFace · 23-02-2011 01:26AM

humanji wrote: »

He's implying that some of us are less Irish than he is, and as such demoting us to a sub class of human, unequal to himself.

Nah I can see where you are coming from, but I wouldn't say that was his intention.
If you are talking about this comment he made

Good news for the vast majority of you here

I think he means that in reference to how hated the Irish language is on boards.

...then again, what do I know, I'm just an ugly bollox face.

lugha · 23-02-2011 01:30AM

Hazys wrote: »

What an asshole and retard.

I cant imagine this is the guy who'll represent Ireland when he meets Obama in the White House for Paddy's Day.

imo he should have been sacked over this.

So Kenny used stupid and inappropriate language a decade ago? So what. M.. Martin was every bit as bad last week.
All of us are prone to make such silly comments but usually escape uncensored as our every public word is not recorded. Why some of us fail to see that it is not appropriate, when expressing a low opinion of someone, to liken then to individuals with mental health issues.

Dismount!

AskMyChocolate · 23-02-2011 01:46AM

easyeason3 wrote: »

And sacked for what?
It was a stupid joke that was said because of bad judgement on his part.

Show me a person who hasn't said something offensive or stupid in their lives.

There's plenty of other things people can pick on instead of a ridiculous joke that was said years ago.

+1

There are many things I find offensive about Mr.Kenny (his spinelessness in his refusal to meet Vincent Browne being to the fore) but this isn't one of them.

Childish pointscoring imho.

RGDATA! · 23-02-2011 02:00AM

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

That's a brilliant point.

By the way, though, isn't science compulsory at Junior Cert level?

yes and irish will still be compulsory at Junior Cert (according to the FG plan)

Jesus Wept · 23-02-2011 02:58AM

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

You may or may not be aware of this story from a few years back - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/sep/15/world.race

It's doing the rounds on Facebook. I wonder why this is? Do you think it is being done in order to discredit him before the election?

To be honest I wasn't aware of this incident at all. When I first read it I thought it was it was recent, but it's from 2002.

For mobile users:

Did you ****** out the word ****** or the did boards?
Ridiculous to star it out, lol.

Enda Kenny and that racial slur

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