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€10,000 portrait of bertie ahern

  • 18-07-2011 09:08PM
    #1
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭


    A portrait of bertie ahern costing 10,000 euro to be hung in the dail.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/euro10000-for-bertie-portrait-a-waste-2823664.html

    I am absolutely utterly sickened at this. At times of austerity where hospital wards will be closed, and children with additional needs will be denied the SNAs that they need, a 10,000 euro portrait of bertie ahern will be hung in the dail.

    I can hang him for free.


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  • #2
    Jarren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,689 ✭✭✭Jarren


    http://www.demotivationalposters.org/image/demotivational-poster/small/0809/bertie-ahern-ireland-bertie-ahern-derek-zoolander-demotivational-poster-1220789700.jpg


  • #3
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Well as long as they don't hang the Biffo painting anywhere, I'm okay!


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    More wastage of money again, guess things will never change is this poxy country :mad:


  • #5
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    He's part of our history, for better or for worse. I'm all for austerity, but it's important that we remember and learn from our path through history.... To prevent future necessities for austerity.

    PS Bertie is a cunt.


  • #6
    Patri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭Patri


    They should just put it in a cupboard instead. ;)


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ruu wrote: »
    Well as long as they don't hang the Biffo painting anywhere, I'm okay!
    They'd need a bigger wall for a start :p


  • #8
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    They should run a portrait contest on the Den every time a Taoiseach leaves office. Viewers can vote for their favourite online. Every vote also goes into a raffle to win a date with Sharon Ní Bheolain or Derek Mooney, depending on who's in the RTE canteen that night.


  • #9
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    I reported on this months ago: http://www.unitedpeople.ie/state.html
    It is indeed a disgrace. The picture itself is a piece of crap.


  • #10
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Patri wrote: »
    They should just put it in a cupboard instead. ;)
    Have it displayed in a fart gallery. :p


  • #11
    nicechick!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭nicechick!


    so frustrating!


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  • #12
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    fine gael/fianna fail - they are all out of the the one stable


  • #13
    Scuid Mhór
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    don't worry guys. when i'm taoiseach i will personally burn it.


  • #14
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    discus wrote: »
    He's part of our history, for better or for worse. I'm all for austerity, but it's important that we remember and learn from our path through history.... To prevent future necessities for austerity.

    PS Bertie is a cunt.


    Would a photo not do?


  • #15
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    A bit pricey for a dart board, but if I had a few spare quid, I'd definitely buy it.


  • #16
    Cicero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,144 ✭✭✭✭Cicero


    *cleans and hoovers phonebox ready for the unveiling*


  • #17
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Scuid Mhór wrote: »
    don't worry guys. when i'm taoiseach i will personally burn it.
    You and me both!


  • #18
    zyxwvu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭zyxwvu


    Strange.. most people seemed to love Bertie a few years back when we had arguably the greatest living standards of any country ever..


  • #19
    KilOit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭KilOit


    He was still Taoiseach, you just don't sweep the past under the rug. i'm sure every president of US is hanging up on the wall in the White House.


  • #20
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    They were supposed to do a similar portrait of Mary Harney but they couldn't find a wall big enough.


  • #21
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Unless its hanging in the toilets, its a disgrace. The amount of people who cant see what a corrupt scumbag he is/was. History will paint the full picture.


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  • #22
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    zyxwvu wrote: »
    Strange.. most people seemed to love Bertie a few years back when we had arguably the greatest living standards of any country ever..


    Most people didn't. His government never had a clear majority. They had a lot of voters, granted, but less than 50% of the people who voted, didn't vote Fianna Fail & relatively very few people in the country voted for - or even had the chance to vote for (or against) Bertie Ahern.


  • #23
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    The good news is that I heard an inquiry into the banking fiasco, will be calling on him, to question some of his activities soon during his era in power so he's not yet got off scott free.


  • #24
    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    KilOit wrote: »
    He was still Taoiseach, you just don't sweep the past under the rug. i'm sure every president of US is hanging up on the wall in the White House.

    I'm sure most people don't have a problem with a painting of Bertie hanging on some wall in the Dáil, it's the fact that a €10,000 painting of Bertie will be hanging on some wall in the Dáil.


  • #25
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I hope they have a designated area in the Dail for these paintings named "the hall of shame".


  • #26
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    ilovesleep wrote: »
    A portrait of bertie ahern costing 10,000 euro to be hung in the dail.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/euro10000-for-bertie-portrait-a-waste-2823664.html

    I am absolutely utterly sickened at this. At times of austerity where hospital wards will be closed, and children with additional needs will be denied the SNAs that they need, a 10,000 euro portrait of bertie ahern will be hung in the dail.

    I can hang him for free.

    Life goes on even with less money.


  • #27
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I hope they have a designated area in the Dail for these paintings named "the hall of shame".
    Hopefully in the toilets area!


  • #28
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    ilovesleep wrote: »
    Would a photo not do?

    Do you really think that we, Ireland, should disrespect the position of Taoiseach so much as to record their their time in office (regardless of their performance) with a paltry photograph?


  • #29
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    discus wrote: »
    Do you really think that we, Ireland, should disrespect the position of Taoiseach so much as to record their their time in office (regardless of their performance) with a paltry photograph?
    Feckin' cheaper and more accurate than that piece of expensive crap!


  • #30
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    Biggins wrote: »
    Feckin' cheaper and more accurate than that piece of expensive crap!

    Yes good idea, let's sell what little class and dignity this country has left.


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  • #31
    KilOit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭KilOit


    Aldebaran wrote: »
    I'm sure most people don't have a problem with a painting of Bertie hanging on some wall in the Dáil, it's the fact that a €10,000 painting of Bertie will be hanging on some wall in the Dáil.

    Well you ain't gonna get johney down the road to paint something that will probably hang in the Dáil for possibly hundreds of years.


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