Gombeenery has gone too far this time.

Pherekydes · 28-06-2011 08:09AM

The_Minister wrote: »

He's gone from office, but I want him to pay this money back.

Since when? Or have you your Healy-Raes mixed up?

LOL at people equating Tony Gregory getting facilities built for his constituents with this wanton waste of taxpayers' money.

And LOL at South Kerry: they must be very proud of themselves.

daveyboy_1ie · 28-06-2011 08:14AM

Nothing surprises me with those two chancers.

Every time I see the son on TV all I think is 'thank f*ck we have less tourists in the country to see this'. Every country has their own 'charectors' who become elected representatives but rarely are they as arrogant as the double act 'the Healey Raes'. At least the father knew he had the lowest common demonitor vote in Kerry, and there are seemingly plenty of them. The son on the other hand acts as if he is a politician.

ectoraige · 28-06-2011 08:32AM

I note they don't say who the elected member was. My money's on Mary Harney, I'd say she had a twinkle in her eye for the young lad :pac:

Crazy Horse 6 · 28-06-2011 08:34AM

Jesus are people actually surprised by this sort of thing anymore.

up for anything · 28-06-2011 08:41AM

mikemac wrote: »

Tony Gregory the greatest parish pump politician of them all and held the government to ransom for 100 million punts for his area, voters and pet projects but is held up as a saint

I've only done a little reading about Tony Gregory since I read your post but it seems to me that If more TDs had the guts and displayed the same commitment to their constituency as he did, this country would have a chance of being a wonderful place.

stovelid · 28-06-2011 08:44AM

Probably a hero down home for it. Depressing.

dmullaney · 28-06-2011 08:50AM

I donno it could have been worse. Think of it like this, each phone call probably takes about a minute - 2600 euro to keep Micky away from driving national policy for 60 hours. We've made worse investments as a nation :-)

Sunnyisland · 28-06-2011 08:54AM

Thats what happens when you live near the Ring of kerry, its an addiction.it follows you everywhere.

Bartyman · 28-06-2011 09:08AM

I wonder if whoever made the calls, also claimed expenses for their time in Leinster House ?

It just keep's getter better.............:mad:

Greentopia · 28-06-2011 09:08AM

MHR is on Today FM now talking about this.

Greentopia · 28-06-2011 09:29AM

Lol, claims he hasn't spoken to his father about this yet :rolleyes:
Anton Savage tried to pin him down and get him to admit that as an elected representative it was wrong that tax payers money was spent like this and all he kept repeating was that "it wush unUshual" ffs.

Also claims he had no hand in it or knowledge of it and justifies it by saying that the money from the phone in went to charity anyway.
Seems entirely unfazed that Dail Eireann should have been used to get an elected politician votes on a bloody TV show.

Sh1t like this has to stop. He should be sacked, as he would be in any other country in Europe that has an actual functioning democratic political system.

oppenheimer1 · 28-06-2011 09:30AM

up for anything wrote: »

I've only done a little reading about Tony Gregory since I read your post but it seems to me that If more TDs had the guts and displayed the same commitment to their constituency as he did, this country would have a chance of being a wonderful place.

Exactly what this country needs, national legislators looking after local needs. :rolleyes: Gregory was a great a gombeen as any Healy-Rae and just ecause his constituency was a drug riddled inner city doesn't make him any better. They were both as bad as each other, in that they diverted funding from the greater good to their pet projects.

Kev_ps3 · 28-06-2011 09:36AM

The_Minister wrote: »

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This is ridiculous and beyond belief.

I am actually angry, and I rarely get angry - this is just so blatent, so in your face...

He's gone from office, but I want him to pay this money back.

Very disrespectful to the Irish taxpayers. What an idiot.

R P McMurphy · 28-06-2011 09:46AM

I used to live in T. Gregory's constituency and he used to call around occasionally out of the blue to see how everything was. Very nice fella and obviously worked hard for the area. That said, that was not his job and that type of constituency politics is every bit as bad as Healey-Rae. Decisions and resource allocations should not be decided on the ransom. Granted there was a great need for resources in the North inner city and Gregory worked within the system to get whatever he could to make a difference and I commend him for that and he had my vote. It is the system that is broken

jajjay · 28-06-2011 09:54AM

This is like something you would see on an episode of Father Ted!

fred252 · 28-06-2011 10:06AM

i heard him on newstalk.

what irks me most is that he refuses to accept that tax payers money shouldn't have been spent in this fashion. i guess he's worried they'll be able to pin point the extension used but its simply idiotic to deny this was misuse of taxpayers money. there might be something to those kerry man jokes.

The_Minister · 28-06-2011 10:13AM

Pherekydes wrote: »

Since when? Or have you your Healy-Raes mixed up?

I assume it twas Jackie who made the calls if it was either of them.

suicide_circus · 28-06-2011 10:15AM

mikemac wrote: »

You Dubs thinking you can call anyone outside Dublin a gombeen

Tony Gregory the greatest parish pump politician of them all and held the government to ransom for 100 million punts for his area, voters and pet projects but is held up as a saint

Double standards, now here is a gombeen for €2600?

Rubbish. Where they're from is of no consequence. I wouldnt consider culchies inda kinny and meehall martin to be gombeens, where as dublins own bearty A-whore-n to be one of the greatest gombeens gangsters to ever walk the earth.

And tony gregory campaigned for money for his area which was in absolute bits and had been abandoned where as MHR cheated on a reality game show by stealing money from the tax payers. No comparison.

fred252 · 28-06-2011 10:18AM

Forest Master wrote: »

What is it with people not knowing what an acronym is? MHR is an abbreviation - look up the definitions. An acronym must spell another pronounceable word - like Scuba or Nato.

Is it embarrassing when you try to use a swanky word & get it wrong?

i once worked for a large multinational, that shall remain nameless, which used many abbreviations. probably in the hundreds. they had a link on the homepage with details on these abbreviations. that link was "/acronyms". none of them were actually acronyms.

its a common mistake, nothing to be embarrassed about unless you're a journalist or some such.

Beruthiel · 28-06-2011 10:19AM

In the dictionary under cute whore sleeveen is a pic of MHR.
If I didn't know he existed as a real person, I'd be thinking that Gift Grub were doing a parody of an irish politician.
I heard him with Anton Savage this morning, the man couldn't answer a straight yes or no if his life depended on it.
Cringe worthy.

oggy8 · 28-06-2011 10:22AM

Yet, another shining example of Kerry's finest:rolleyes:!!

What irks me was his basic inability to understand or even accept that anybody who makes a call from a phone in any of the houses of the Oireachtas on non-related Oireachtas business, is misusing taxpayers monies:D. And whether that money goes to charity is completely irrelevant!

Maybe, Michael will phone DADDY and ask him if he's another one that will adopt the "I dont know nothing" bogmen defense!

Wibbs · 28-06-2011 10:28AM

suicide_circus wrote:

Rubbish. Where they're from is of no consequence. I wouldnt consider culchies inda kinny and meehall martin to be gombeens, where as dublins own bearty A-whore-n to be one of the greatest gombeens gangsters to ever walk the earth

+1 gombeens and boggers are not geographically nor accent specific. Bertie is a bogger of the highest rank.

Beruthiel wrote: »

In the dictionary under cute whore sleeveen is a pic of MHR.
If I didn't know he existed as a real person, I'd be thinking that Gift Grub were doing a parody of an irish politician.
I heard him with Anton Savage this morning, the man couldn't answer a straight yes or no if his life depended on it.
Cringe worthy.

+1000 B and yet even bigger bloody morons keep voting for him and his like. Good god someone like Michael "Stroke" Fahy, whose very name and subsequent conviction might give even the greatest drooling windowlicker a clue topped the polls in his constituency. Topped the polls FFS. Morons being led and led on by cunning morons. Too often Father Ted is a documentary.

whoopdedoo · 28-06-2011 10:28AM

I want to know what extension these calls were made from!!

how thick can you be if you think in this day and age this **** can't be traced!!

certifiably thick

Liam Byrne · 28-06-2011 10:36AM

whoopdedoo wrote: »

I want to know what extension these calls were made from!!

how thick can you be if you think in this day and age this **** can't be traced!!

certifiably thick

Things can be traced, if the will is there to do so.

However this is Ireland, where billions of Euro, brown envelopes for Bertie, telephone calls and even homes of members of the Seanad can't be traced.

If Kenny doesn't demand the money be repaid by someone then he can kiss goodbye to any credibility re reform and value for money.

But a twit that can't answer a straight "is it wrong" question on national radio has no place in politics. He waffled for a good 5 minutes about "not knowing about it til yesterday" and "it was for charity" and "it couldn't have been me" and other such irrelevant waste of airtime.

Anton did eventually point out that people who had nothing to do with stuff like - for example - Anglo could see that it was wrong, so it wasn't a hard question.

Even then the best that this waste of space could come up with was "it was un yoooouuususal".

Time to leave the country, methinks. It certainly ain't gonna be "fixed" by idiots like this.

mconigol · 28-06-2011 10:37AM

realies wrote: »

Thats what happens when you live near the Ring of kerry, its an addiction.it follows you everywhere.

Jesus I'm embarrassed for you :P

Orando Broom · 28-06-2011 10:47AM

It's sad to think that this 'dynasty' has been allowed to remain in political office. It is a damning indictment on the voters of Kerry.

It is sad to think that this act will go unpunished and unremarked upon. The fact that their behaviour is tolerated says it all.

Phill Ewinn · 28-06-2011 11:08AM

This will be a test for FG. Can they hold a simple inquiry into this small matter properly without the need for a multi-million euro tribuneral that will last ten years. Or will they just brush it under the carpet ala Fine Fail! I expect a full apology a resignation and a refund from whom ever it was. Man the fvck up Enda and take some action.

captain caveman · 28-06-2011 11:12AM

Heard him there on the news... He reckons its not a big deal as the money went to charity!

Fcuk sake, if i want to give money to charity, I will, but it'll be my decision!

SEPT 23 1989 · 28-06-2011 11:21AM

ItsAWindUp · 28-06-2011 11:23AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Killanaskully has nothing on these lads!

Gombeenery has gone too far this time.

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