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Ireland's Greatest Tee-shock

  • 09-06-2011 09:04PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭


    Hello,

    So who, in your opinion, was ireland's greatest tee-shock. Was it Eammon De Valera? Or Bertie Ahern? Or Jonah Lomu?

    One of them wasn't acutally a teeshock, guess which one.

    In my fictional ireland, Michael Scofield is the teeshock of ireland. He rules with a benevolant iron fist.

    But really, I guess Sean Lemass was pretty excellent. He looked like the priest in father ted who had a very boring voice. Also, a little like vincent price.


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


    I would have said Lemass myself as he appears to have been the last great man (besides the late Mr Fitzgerald whom I would put second on such a list) of honesty and integrity in striving to do the right thing for the state and for the people of Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    I seen Tee, I thought golf!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Probably Sean Lemass. Dev done a lot of good but also harm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,385 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    I liked Garrett Fitzgerald the most as a person, although he wasn't an entirely good Taoiseach.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    I liked Garrett Fitzgerald the most as a person, although he wasn't an entirely good Taoiseach.

    Yeah, me too. I think he always tried to do the honourable thing! He didn't get it all right I agree, but compared to what was before and after him, he certainly tried his best to do right by the country!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Enda Kenny!

    I'm an optimist!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,418 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    I wonder would there be any contest for the worst one ?

    Best one ? Gareth Fitzgerald .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,767 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Greatest ?

    He's not born yet and his mother is dead:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    None of them have been great shakes tbh... Dev for keeping us out of the war maybe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    One owned an island, the other had his own tunnel.

    Bond villains.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭cosmicfart


    Is this about Golf?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    Racking my brain here...doesn't help that the most crooked, inept and useless political party in the western world have been in power for 61 of the last 79 years. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭policarp


    Brian Cowan was the best singing Tee shock next to Albert Reynolds.
    But Bertie was the best two faced Tee shock next to Charlie Heehaw...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    RachaelVO wrote: »
    I seen Tee, I thought golf!

    I thought I was gonna see some kind of killer tee-shirt!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    I thought I was gonna see some kind of killer tee-shirt!

    We've all been misled greatly, DAM YOU OP!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    Who was the least incompetent, should be the question.


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


    Who was the least incompetent, should be the question.
    Easy. Lemass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    Who was the least incompetent, should be the question.

    Oh, in that case i would have to say John A Costello...even after considering the fact that he declared the Irish Republic during a drunken hissy-fit in Canada. Gotta love the Irish....*hic*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    WT Cosgrave wasn't a Taoiseach but he did a fine job

    Good vision too with Ardnacrushna, largest hydro electric plant in the world at the time.
    And then rural electrification


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭Nevermind_


    Has to be Sean Lemass for trying to drag the country kicking and screaming into the 20th century.

    However TK Whitaker deserves alot of recognition for formulating most of the economic policies which Lemass gets credited for.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭barbarians


    Lemass
    Fitzgerald
    De Valera
    Lynch
    Costello
    Cosgrave
    Bruton
    Reynolds
    Cowen
    Ahern
    Haughey


    That's how I would rate them but I'm no political expert. Too early to rate Enda yet but you could nearly put him ahead of Charlie, Bertie and Biffo by default


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Enda only started but has so far broken many promises with his answer being the last government caused it(Despite they saying they'd fix it with those promises).He's only started though so we'll see in the long run.

    Behind the scenes Cowen did do work and in the past he did good work...But as a front man and a minister of Finances he really fecked up.

    Bertie was a man of the people but jumped a sinking ship and ignored many warnings.He was the perfect early to mid Celtic tiger politician but it should have changed hands near the end when the ignored warnings came in.

    I was too young to remember John Bruton and is not to long n the past too be in the History books so dont know enough about him.

    But as of History lessons Sean Lemass and Garret Fitz did do allot...but again as its been quite a while since they were in power we've had time to overlook them truly.

    But people have to remember that each taoisach in Ireland works through very different climates so theres no real fair way to justify them.

    Tbh though any Irish politician in very recent history will never be seen in good light as their accomplishments are forgotten but every mistake is remembered.(Thats not in reference to any one in particular,its in reference to all of them in the common public eye...both past,present and future)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    mikemac wrote: »
    WT Cosgrave wasn't a Taoiseach but he did a fine job

    Good vision too with Ardnacrushna, largest hydro electric plant in the world at the time.
    And then rural electrification

    Wait, they have have electricity in Leitrim?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Laois_Man wrote: »
    Enda Kenny!

    I'm an optimist!
    Holy crap.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,824 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    Lynch


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    policarp wrote: »
    Brian Cowan was the best singing Tee shock next to Albert Reynolds.

    Yeah, but did Reynolds get his face plastered all over US prime time tv?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    telekon wrote: »
    Racking my brain here...doesn't help that the most crooked, inept and useless political party in the western world have been in power for 61 of the last 79 years. :mad:

    You think Lemass and Lynch were "inept and useless"? :rolleyes: It's as if you can't even admit some FFers got some things right in the past without being accused of being a FF sympathiser or some such bollocks.

    To answer the question, I'd agree with what Biggins said and I'd have Lemass No.1 and Lynch No.2.

    Bruton was our last decent one but doesn't get a lot of credit because he wasn't particularly charismatic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭raveni


    Hello,

    So who, in your opinion, was ireland's greatest tee-shock. Was it Eammon De Valera? Or Bertie Ahern? Or Jonah Lomu?

    One of them wasn't acutally a teeshock, guess which one.

    In my fictional ireland, Michael Scofield is the teeshock of ireland. He rules with a benevolant iron fist.

    But really, I guess Sean Lemass was pretty excellent. He looked like the priest in father ted who had a very boring voice. Also, a little like vincent price.

    Eh, seriously?? What the hell is wrong with you? That's not how you spell it:mad:


























    It's spelt teashock.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    What's with all the Lemass love. The man was a crook.

    Garret Fitz was the best cause he was the only person who was in it for the public good, rather than lining his own pocket.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    You think Lemass and Lynch were "inept and useless"? :rolleyes: It's as if you can't even admit some FFers got some things right in the past without being accused of being a FF sympathiser or some such bollocks.

    To answer the question, I'd agree with what Biggins said and I'd have Lemass No.1 and Lynch No.2.

    Bruton was our last decent one but doesn't get a lot of credit because he wasn't particularly charismatic.

    I think he meant the party as a whole...

    Can I ask why Jack Lynch gets such a high rating? It was his election manifesto of '77 that led to the giveaway budgets, and played a major part in the economic toruble of the following decade. In his final two year term, Ireland saw a deficit of nearly 18% which dwarves our current one, and was a record at the time for a developed nation. The national debt rose by £2 billion in two years. He seemed to have been a genuine man, but I don't see why people wax so lyrical about him.


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