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€10,000 portrait of bertie ahern

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  • #32
    7sr2z3fely84g5
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    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..

    some few yes,but alot didnt see this "booming ecomony" stuff,tbh the country was sloppy back then,we took our eye off the ball,allowed rates and services to go up in prices,vasts amount of money wasted like the port tunnel or thornton hall,turning a blind eye to anyone who was bone idle and claiming on dole when there was alot of jobs available at time.


  • #33
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    discus wrote: »
    Yes good idea, let's sell what little class and dignity this country has left.
    Well we paid €10,000 for a schite looking painting (and it really is bad) that one third of it is pure cheap looking blue background - what class is that! Thats approx €3500+ for plain blue paint!
    Classly alright!


  • #34
    discus
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    Corinne Fancy Sparrow wrote: »
    some few yes,but alot didnt see this "booming ecomony" stuff,tbh the country was sloppy back then,we took our eye off the ball,allowed rates and services to go up in prices,vasts amount of money wasted like the port tunnel or thornton hall,turning a blind eye to anyone who was bone idle and claiming on dole when there was alot of jobs available at time.

    Yes, "took our eye off the ball"... Well, most of the country did.

    A fair few of us didn't buy into the **** that the nouveau-riche were pushing in their rag newspapers and glossies. We didn't buy extra houses or replace our cars every 2 years with increasingly larger models.

    If you have trouble spotting us, we are the ones who aren't constantly moaning about "that last shower" because we weren't thick enough to drink their Kool-Aid.


  • #35
    Crazy Horse 6
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    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.
    Could be a tipping point this


  • #36
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    I hope Mad Ming mangles it.


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  • #37
    Aldebaran
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    KilOit wrote: »
    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.

    So those are the two options? 'Johney down the road' or some fella charging €10,000? Absolutely no middle ground there whatsoever?


  • #38
    discus
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    Biggins wrote: »
    Well we paid €10,000 for a schite looking painting (and it really is bad) that one third of it is pure cheap looking blue background - what class is that! Thats approx €3500+ for plain blue paint!
    Classly alright!

    **** sake, 10,000 is nothing to the countries budget. Don't feed socialist lines like "we could have gotten an SNA/hospital trolley" etc. The fact is that the money for these types of things are set aside every year. If you think it's not worth doing, why weren't you complaining years ago?


  • #39
    phasers
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    What about students at NCAD or something similar? Surely there's some talented artists there who could knock something up for a few hundred quid?


  • #40
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    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..

    When Hitler came to power he was loved by the German people, you cant really blame them for changing their minds either.








    whats the thing about every thread eventually mentioning hitler, probably a common occurrence in bertie threads


  • #41
    discus
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    Do you think that 10000 euros would make a difference to this country? If it wasn't spent from the budget is was allocated to, it would be returned to the coffers at the end of the year, and probably given away to service some debt or other. At least the money stays in the country this way.

    Can Ireland please try keep some sense of dignity...

    We had less money years ago, and we had some great works commissioned at great expense. A lot of them were morally and ethically controversial (think the statue in Fairview park), but that is our history and so we go on. You're giving out about pennies here people.


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  • #42
    Biggins
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    discus wrote: »
    **** sake, 10,000 is nothing to the countries budget. Don't feed socialist lines like "we could have gotten an SNA/hospital trolley" etc. The fact is that the money for these types of things are set aside every year. If you think it's not worth doing, why weren't you complaining years ago?
    I was (there is a picture of it on my site) - and by the way, I haven't fed any socialist line!
    Money for leaders paintings are not set aside every year - not unless we have been changing them over annually and I don't know about it!

    I've seen the ruddy thing (it was occasionally shown at exhibitions organised by the Office of Public Works (OPW) but was generally otherwise in storage since 2008.). It desperate - it truly is.
    It looks genuinely like a cheap piece of crap but sadly it wasn't so cheap.

    There are better genuine painters selling their skills in the St Stephens Green shopping centre (third floor, left side) who could do a better painting.


  • #43
    discus
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    Biggins wrote: »
    I was - and by the way, I haven't fed any socialist line!
    Money for leaders paintings are not set aside every year - not unless we have been changing them over annually and I don't know about it!

    I've seen the ruddy thing (it was occasionally shown at exhibitions organised by the Office of Public Works (OPW).). It desperate - it truly is.
    It looks genuinely like a cheap piece of crap but sadly it wasn't so cheap.

    It wasn't expensive either. We better start complaining about the millions spent on the Paddys Day parade - money for ****ty crepe paper!

    I'm glad is looks ****e, I'd hate to think that Bertie recieved the same effort as Fitzgerald, DeValera, Lemass or Lynch.


  • #44
    Biggins
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    discus wrote: »
    ...I'm glad is looks ****e, I'd hate to think that Bertie recieved the same effort as Fitzgerald, DeValera, Lemass or Lynch.
    No argument there!


  • #45
    Biggins
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    The next painting to be hung up is Cowens.
    I genuinely hope they got a better painter. Thats all.


  • #46
    Liam Byrne
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    discus wrote: »
    Yes, "took our eye off the ball"... Well, most of the country did.

    A fair few of us didn't buy into the **** that the nouveau-riche were pushing in their rag newspapers and glossies. We didn't buy extra houses or replace our cars every 2 years with increasingly larger models.

    If you have trouble spotting us, we are the ones who aren't constantly moaning about "that last shower" because we weren't thick enough to drink their Kool-Aid.

    You had me until the last paragraph, because "the last shower" gave all of us the bill for said Kool Aid, despite the fact that we didn't drink it.


  • #47
    discus
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    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    You had me until the last paragraph, because "the last shower" gave all of us the bill for said Kool Aid, despite the fact that we didn't drink it.

    Yeah true, but unfortunately we live in a democracy, and that government was elected by our peers. I'd rather have a ****ty national debt than lets say... Sharia Law, Communist Government, Socialist Government, Dictatorship or Lawless bandit country (think somalia).

    I don't care much for what Moodys have to say, Ireland actually doesn't have it that bad.


  • #48
    ilovesleep
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    discus wrote: »
    Ireland actually doesn't have it that bad.

    Yet! We are going to be taxed into a default and poverty. And read the slave internship scheme thread.


  • #49
    discus
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    ilovesleep wrote: »
    Yet! We are going to be taxed into a default and poverty. And read the slave internship scheme thread.

    Oh how awful. We have a relatively cheap and easily accessible 3rd level education system, and the government have stepped in to try and get people the necessary experience so that they can get jobs here, or at least give you the chance to go abroad with your qualifications and experience.

    We'll be taxed into default soon anyway if we don't start cutting welfare payments, catching dole scroungers, cutting foreign aid, and centralising hospitals... but each and every one of those cuts will be protested against by who? By the people who got us in here in the first place... Those who want it all; those who blame everyone else. I'm sure when we do default, that same group will be complaining about the Labour/FG government that didn't have the balls to make the cuts.


  • #50
    7sr2z3fely84g5
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    Theres so much debt out there is strangling the country,but yet theres those who took out mortgages bigger than what they could realistically afford,then there's others who no fault of their own lost their job or working hours and now faced with going hungry to pay the bills,it's a big fck up we got ourselves into.

    Then there's those who have neither but have to bail out those who wanted to keep up with the jones during the good times.


  • #51
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Corinne Fancy Sparrow wrote: »
    Theres so much debt out there is strangling the country,but yet theres those who took out mortgages bigger than what they could realistically afford,then there's others who no fault of their own lost their job or working hours and now faced with going hungry to pay the bills,it's a big fck up we got ourselves into.

    Then there's those who have neither but have to bail out those who wanted to keep up with the jones during the good times.

    I'd phrase the first paragraph better if I wanted it to be accurate; it should read "they got themselves into".


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  • #52
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,915 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    This is a non story.

    Bertie is a cunt of the highest order, but choose your battles people. He was a democratically elected leader of the country, the worst in our history, but I would hope that he'll get his come uppance eventually.


  • #53
    bernardo mac
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    Wonder how many visitors to the Dail will become nauseated when they view Bertie's portrait.Hopefully some will manage to disgorge their sickness on the offending article


  • #54
    conorhal
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    Typical example of public sector inefficiency and waste, how can it possibly cost ten grand to take a mug-shot?


  • #55
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Taoisigh is the plural of Taoiseach, well there ya go.


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