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Did Enda Kenny blame the Irish people for the crisis?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Snowie wrote: »
    I hate to say this.....

    But ireland did get greedy its true!

    Particularly the banks, the developers and some high-flying "indestructible" billionaires. They were assisted by deaf dumb and blind regulators and FF politicians.

    They all got caught with their pants down when they couldn't borrow their way out of the global meltdown, and as a result cost the country its reputation and thousands upon thousands of jobs.:(

    I'm glad I wasn't one of the ones who thought the good days were never going to end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    People are idiots, the reason there is any such thing as a government at all is to protect us from ourselves, to tell us what we can and can't do and to regulate. People would take a kick up the arse if they were readily available. If I'm lending all my money to people without much thought of how they're going to pay me back then I'm ultimately responsible.

    In summary, fúck you Enda Kenny.

    Would thank twice if possible.

    I wonder did Kenny mention his fat salary, pension and perks and the handy well-paid made up jobs he's been giving to his mates while he boasted about the hard times in Ireland. :rolleyes:

    Just another careerist, in it for the gravy train and power.

    Not bad for a teacher. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 860 ✭✭✭UDAWINNER


    Not every irish person "needed" to have the holiday home or the new car every year not to mention the 5 bed detached house with only parents and a kid living in it.Now the tax payer will be asked out to bail these greedy people when they deafault on their bills. But hey, thats ok because we're all partied to excess. F. That


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,589 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    LaVail wrote: »
    Truths? I can tell you that I don't owe the banks/credit unions or anyone else for that matter as much as a cent. I worked hard when there was work, didn't buy new cars or build houses. I cut my cloth to measure. I don't like being branded with the same brush as others just because they overspent.

    Yet idiots like me who did nothing wrong get classed as the reason that this country is fcked.

    Its about time somebody stood up to all in government and started telling them a few home truths and not the other way around.

    He said people went mad with borrowing. Not everyone. Lots of paranoia in this thread. The people who borrowed too much know who they are.


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


    Enda Kenny.

    Ex-Thunderbird.

    Hair made of the stuff the lego mens' hair is made of.

    Total dipshit.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,936 ✭✭✭patwicklow


    Maybe its because he saw me pass him one day back in mayo i was driving a
    Mercedes Benz CLK-Class 09 maybe that got to him...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    patwicklow wrote: »
    Maybe its because he saw me pass him one day back in mayo i was driving a
    Mercedes Benz CLK-Class 09 maybe that got to him...

    so how many times has it been to the garage? :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    People are idiots, the reason there is any such thing as a government at all is to protect us from ourselves, to tell us what we can and can't do and to regulate. People would take a kick up the arse if they were readily available. If I'm lending all my money to people without much thought of how they're going to pay me back then I'm ultimately responsible.

    In summary, fúck you Enda Kenny.

    The sad thing is that that's not true. Legally it is the person who was loaned the money who is responsible. Load a bollix when financial institutions were inept.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    You know that person you thought was your friend, but actually talks about you behind your back............. That's Enda.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭NakedNNettles


    Lot of dirty FFailers on here.

    Anyway FG have to fix the country now, no thanks to the people who voted FF in time after time.....short memories and all that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    I couldn't believe my ears when I heard his " speech" on the radio.
    It was absolutely disgusting & showed a total contempt for the people of thus country who he was there to represent.
    How DARE a "leader" of a country stand up at an international forum & call the people if the country he is paid to represent " greedy"
    You would never hear any other politician dare to call his customers who he serves greedy.
    This from the man who s Obamas speech for a world televised event & thought Boone would notice or care.
    And whose TDs : The useless Alan Farrel has been caught trying to give his wife his old councillor job under her UNMARRIED name; having already given his brother a free ride onto the council by co- opting him as an jnellected councillor.

    Kennys remarks were deeply offensive & degrading to the people of Ireland.
    He should publicly & profusely apologise .

    If a CEO if a company called his customers greedy they would walk away in droves.
    I hope Dail Eireann is buried in letters of complaint ; people should let this man know that this internationally broadcast public attack & demeaning insulting personalised slur on the Ordinary people of hhis country is totally disgusting & unacceptable.

    Im also guessing he flew first class, stayed in a five star hotel, claimed massive expenses & drew his 30k a month salary while he was there " representing" the " greedy " citizens of Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    Look, we all played a part in it. Just like we all played a part in blowing innocent people up and raping kids for all those years.

    Now get back to hatin' yourselves and do as The Man says.

    Well you're actually correct about the second part, people over a certain age anyway. Every man and his dog knew what the church was at but very few did a thing. When I was a kid you were regularly warned by your parents not to allow yourself yourself be left with the priest alone.

    Irish people need to learn to take some responsibility.

    The fact of the matter is that the Irish people did play a significant role in the downfall of the country. They continually voted in Fianna Fail and accepted all their bull****, they allowed the countryside as well as the towns to be overdeveloped with poor planning and on top of this large numbers of people lived on cheap credit.

    Not everyone is directly to blame, but just as those people who stood by while the church worked their way through any child under the age of 18 they could lay their hands on, they are in some way indirectly to blame for not putting a stop to it, as are people that stood by while the country devoured itself.

    Also did I mention that the majority of people in the country repeatedly elected Bertie Aherne to run the place?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭hawkelady


    Lot of dirty FFailers on here.

    Anyway FG have to fix the country now, no thanks to the people who voted FF in time after time.....short memories and all that.

    What's that comment got to do with the price of beetroot???
    This thread is about kenny having no clue what's going on and giving 3 different answers to the same question depending on who he is speaking to!!! Complete muppet, as was said earlier a blind dog would do a classier job!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    A public representative calling the people he represents " greedy" is disgusting & unacceptable.

    A proper and unreservedly apology for the degrading comments & mass generalisation & slur on this nations character is required.

    If it was any other country there would be riots on the street .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Does anyone ever take responsibility for their actions anymore???

    The fact is Enda is now correct after being incorrect in December.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭hawkelady


    efb wrote: »
    Does anyone ever take responsibility for their actions anymore???

    The fact is Enda is now correct after being incorrect in December.

    Yet he gave a different answer on primetime last night. If he keeps giving interviews I'm sure he will get it right eventually!!!! He should be gagged.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭ronan45


    Cant you see Enda is mickey teasing us? Blowing all hot and cold on the irish electorate. Classic


    cock tease
    1. A politician who is usually significantly more attractive than the electorate that appears to be on the electorates side. Will flirt with them a lot and get them to spend a lot of money (on the banks) for the prospect of Prosperity, and then abruptly **** them over (in the figurative sense of course) by never talking to them again and/or dumping the **** out of them via the classic "insult them at the World Economic Forum" in Davos with the "mad" borrowing frenzy method.


    :D:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭Crazy Horse 6


    the uproar is hlarious... bout time he spoke some home truths to the people
    I did'nt borrow a single cent during the so called "boom times". Enda can go fck himself how dare he tar everyone with the same brush.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    He didn't say 'all the people'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Y; that any person/ work professional would be capable of making this type of unthought through, unsubstantiated & deeply unfrofessional & insulting repeated statement at a high profile international media event is deeply worrying.

    That he dosnt see the problem with it & hasn't made a high profile media apology is even worse.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,113 ✭✭✭Xenophile


    So he left out the word "some." So what is this big hoohaa about?

    The Forum on Spirituality has been closed for years. Please bring it back, there are lots of Spiritual people in Ireland and elsewhere.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭NakedNNettles


    Kenny's right.

    The truth hurts, but that will happen to those who had big egos driving round in their flashy beemers and showcasing their Dallas style mansions all on the borrowed dough. Combination of greed, power and drunk on money.

    I'd prefer to hear the truth than listen to more BS.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    I did'nt borrow a single cent during the so called "boom times". Enda can go fck himself how dare he tar everyone with the same brush.

    i'm sure it was a generalisation, he MAY have been referreing to those who contributed to the situation


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    some people here seem to be debating the validity of endas swiss comments. but imo the main issue is the hypocritical nature of making an address to the people on RTE previous to this saying something completely different. this is UNNACCEPTABLE behaviour and, added to the other questionable things said recently by other party members is showing up FG as being the lying bunch of Pr**ks we suspected who seem to be on a different wavelength to the irish people.


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,279 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    I'd have more of a problem with the "not your fault" guff he came out with on TV last month. The real issue here is his thinking he has to sugar coat the message to the Irish people.

    Like someone else consistently elected governments that advocated light touch financial regulation and giveaway budgets funded by booming stamp study and construction industry tax returns? Or someone else mortgaged themselves up to the hilt to buy property with insane valuations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭Jon_459


    Whether it's true or not, last month in his "State of the Nation" he told us we were not at fault and we didn't cause this mess.

    Then he does a complete u-turn (surprise surprise) and says it's our fault.

    Hypocrisy at its best.

    I’ve emailed him to tell him that -- taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    This from the man who s Obamas speech for a world televised event & thought Boone would notice or care.

    Ehhh, just read this bit and decided that the rest of your post wasnt worth reading, im sure it was very nice though.
    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has defended his use of part of US President Barack Obama's election speech saying the duplication was deliberate and designed as a tribute.
    Speaking on RTE's Six One, Mr Kenny said he had a copy of the original speech hanging in his office.
    Mr Kenny said the problems identified by Mr Obama were universal and also applied in Ireland.
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0524/kennye.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Judging by the outcry here, the truth hurts


  • Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Analia Delightful Script


    when i hear people in outrage going "i'm in such massive debt and the bank should never have given me this money"...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    True or not

    You DO NOT RUN DOWN YOUR OWN PEOPLE in front of the world media

    You have done terrible damage to yourself Kenny


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