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Enda Kenny on the cover of Time magazine: 'The Celtic Comeback'

  • 05-10-2012 11:16AM
    #1
    MakeEmLaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭


    Enda Kenny has been featured on the cover of this week's Time magazine. The story's headline reads 'The Celtic Comeback'. It also says 'Prime Minister Enda Kenny is rebuilding his country’s economy. What the rest of Europe can learn from him.'

    To see the cover, click here.

    Good for Ireland, or a load of nonsense?


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  • #2
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    He looks like Podge :pac:


  • #3
    Sappa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    Hat a load of crap,obviously timeagazine have never been passed Dublin or bothered to look at the level of debt the Irish nation is in because of idiots like Kenney giving there nod to the bank guarantee.


  • #4
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    He looks like he's off that stroke ad.


  • #5
    Youssef Chippo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Youssef Chippo


    The Celtic Cunt


  • #6
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Any links to the article?


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  • #7
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,329 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Any links to the article?

    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2126069,00.html


  • #8
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Sappa wrote: »
    Hat a load of crap,obviously timeagazine have never been passed Dublin or bothered to look at the level of debt the Irish nation is in because of idiots like Kenney giving there nod to the bank guarantee.

    I'm pretty sure it was somebody else who gave the nod to the bank guarantee.

    I'd say they have looked at the level of debt that Ireland is in. That's what the article seems to be about - Rebuilding the economy.


  • #9
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,193 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    It's Taoiseach.


  • #10
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    Ah at least he will be able to look at the pictures.


  • #11
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    It's Taoiseach.

    Americans don't speak Irish though.


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  • #12
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,329 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    IvySlayer wrote: »
    It's Taoiseach.

    Americans don't speak Irish though.

    Thats not the American edition though, its the european one. They still don't speak Irish though.


  • #13
    Tazz T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,245 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    I thought it was a pisstake. There's even a typo on the cover.

    'What the rest of Europe can learn from him.'

    How about, not make the same mistakes.


  • #14
    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    Time magazine is a kids magazine.
    There is a Time advanced(adult edition) but it was not launched in Europea yet.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TT81o4hL4c


  • #15
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The Celtic Coward


  • #16
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Am I missing something here..
    Seriously, what have the current government done to recover the country?

    Much of what they are doing was initiated under the last government, not that I'm saying its good or bad..

    It doesnt seem that anything proactive is being done, well the gathering I suppose but it makes me cringe to the bone...

    From the perspective of recovering the economy I see nothing this government have done... NOTHING

    There have been some small wins regarding employment in the major urban centres, probably way less than jobs lost. rural Ireland is being left as a wasteland, no initiaves at all to reverse the steep decline in employment.


  • #17
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    They love him because the gobsh1te keeps paying the bondholders:mad:


  • #18
    thebigbiffo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    any positive message to the rest of the world is welcome.

    Inda's the same clown though, just a different circus.


  • #19
    RGDATA!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭RGDATA!


    can't believe anyone fell for this obvious photoshop



    :o


  • #20
    bluecode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    He is the Prime Minister, the official title is Taoiseach. That's the what we call the Prime Minister in this country hence both are correct. Leaving that piece of trivia aside.

    The rest of the article is nonsense. Good for Kenny's ego but utter BS. There is no comeback. This country in not in recovery, as some expert said lately it's bouncing along the bottom. Massive unemployment which would be worse if it wasn't for the 250 people a day emigrating. A government paralysed by it's inability to do anything about the it's massive public spending bill. A government too busy in fighting rather than working together to fix the problems. A government with no wit or imagination led by man clearly out of his depth.

    What the article does prove is that Time magazine has been fooled too by the same spin that's fooling the EU.

    There will be a reckoning soon, probably with this December's budget. Enda should enjoy his moment in the spotlight. It won't last.


  • #21
    Fishooks12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12


    RGDATA! wrote: »
    can't believe anyone fell for this obvious photoshop



    :o

    It's not a photoshop


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  • #22
    Sappa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Sappa wrote: »
    Hat a load of crap,obviously timeagazine have never been passed Dublin or bothered to look at the level of debt the Irish nation is in because of idiots like Kenney giving there nod to the bank guarantee.

    I'm pretty sure it was somebody else who gave the nod to the bank guarantee.

    I'd say they have looked at the level of debt that Ireland is in. That's what the article seems to be about - Rebuilding the economy.
    Ehh he voted on it as a member of the dail!


  • #23
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Makes a nice change from a minister appearing in Stubbs gazette I suppose. :pac:


  • #24
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    Think Time Magazine are getting confused here. Getting mixed up between Enda and Neil Lennon, ie the Celtic Comeback....:D:D


  • #25
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,278 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I prefer it when he's on the front cover of Phoenix.


  • #26
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    I'm sure there has been some political influence at some level to have this done... Surely their journalism skills arent that poor that they beleive the article themselves...
    Sort off showing Greece that the Irish were right to bow down, look even time magazine recognise the good job they've done.. ??


  • #27
    Youssef Chippo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Youssef Chippo


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Americans don't speak Irish though.
    Des Bishop?


  • #28
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Youssef Chippo wrote: »
    Des Bishop?

    If Des Bishop wasn't enough of a knob end, he had to go and learn Irish just to "show us how it can be done" and piss us off even more.


  • #29
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Tazz T wrote: »
    I thought it was a pisstake. There's even a typo on the cover.

    'What the rest of Europe can learn from him.'

    How about, not make the same mistakes.

    he did'nt create this mess, FF did........you're a short memory, or maybe a selective one?


  • #30
    Davyhal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭Davyhal


    Hopefully this article will trick some misinformed foreign multinational into thinking that all is fine and dandy and will set up here! Could get a few jobs at least out of this shocking article!


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  • #31
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Well at least it is a more positive image than Brian Clowen appearing drunk on the David Letterman show.

    The economy is at a bad level for the working person but statistically it ploughing on despite negative headwinds. Once the global recovery begins Ireland will latch onto it quickly and pull the country back. As soon as this happens the stupid Irish electorate will re-elect Fianna Fail so they blow yet another boom.

    I am certain Mitt Romney will sweep to power and this will be catalyst for global recovery as he tells the subsidized corporations to get lost and if GWB stayed in power for longer none of this global crisis would have heppened as he would have done exactly nothing as he did with Lehman Bros. and let them sink or swim. The market would quickly consolidate and correct itself and the rotten banks would have gone bust. Government interference and meddling is what has caused most of these problems.

    There is no alternative, who would people prefer Fine Gael or the Fianna Fail traitors who have ruined the country on multiple occasions. Fine Gael being their whipping boys who get to clean up the mess and set-up another boom only for FF to squander it again.


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