Seanie Fitz parties in Poland

gerryo777 wrote: »

How are you getting on with that new 'broadband' thingy??

It's pretty nice. Faster than 98% of Ireland apparently.

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SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »

Question for our resident "hard-men" intellectuals: Even if you murder Seanie Fitz, how will that change anything? The country will still be stuck with the huge bank debt.

Also the few informed posters here will already know that our massive budget deficit is caused by government borrowing to pay our bloated social welfare bills and pay for the public sector's cavier. The bank debt is minor in comparison.

True.

The polititions love all this rage directed at Seanie, etc.

Think about it. If Seanie had stood up at a board meeting in 2004 and said "Stop!! :eek: Enough of this madness, we have to be prudent and stop this over lending! Although dear shareholders, that also means the end of the ridiculous yearly dividends you're currently raking in. Your dividends will now reflect those of banks worldwide excluding Ireland." what would have happened? He'd have been booted out and replaced by someone else within six months to continue the gravy train for all those who were cheering him on. The only way for this to have been prevented was reasonable and enforced regulation. But that rests with the polititions, which is why they love everyone blaming Seanie.

Sappa wrote: »

Seanie Fitzpatrick cheers on the Irish team from a 550 euro a night hotel in Poland with a bunch of his Fianna Fail friends.
Well for some being elite and untouchable,I thought he was meant to be living on 188 quid a week.
What ya think after hours have any of these developers,bankers,politicians no shame or just know they don't have to give a toss as the Irish people will eat the dirt they throw at them.


Mod added source http://www.independent.ie/national-news/seanie-joins-fans-from-plush-550anight-hotel-3134076.html

Like anyone with financial sense, he didn't put all his eggs in one basket, and made sure he had assets untouchable by the bust-up.

Problem? he made use of tax schemes and incentives open to everyone else.

SerialComplaint wrote: »

Lovely - but I presume the same doesn't apply to his 'great results' during the boom times - are they the responsibility of the politicians too, or is it only the bad stuff that you blame on others?

Maybe you think Seanie had "great results" during the boom time, I don't. I think he was reckless. There will always be reckless people, so the only way to keep them in rein is to have regulation in place, which is the responsibility of polititions.

All good stuff and bad stuff have people who are responsible for it, pretend otherwise to yourself if you like. You can defend our polititions from responsiblity, but I believe in accountability.

smash wrote: »

Well it's the responsibility of the financial regulator. Just because he's employed by the politicians, doesn't mean it's their fault that he didn't do his job. The same way if a teacher didn't do their job, you don't blame the politicians.

The polititions have control over what the regulations are. If those regulations are not in place then they can't be implemented. Anyone who employs someone to do a job should be responsible to ensure they do it and take measures if they don't.

Teachers have everything in place to do their job properly, hence no, I won't blame polititions if a particular teacher doesn't.

Staying in a €550 a night Sheraton Hotel in Poland accompanied by a small group of friends including former Fianna Fail press secretary PJ Mara.
Says it all about this country really....:mad: