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Who is your Irish political hero?

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    #62
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    No hero. I don't believe in that but aired would have to be John Hume. He seemed a decent honest politician. A rareity.


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    #63
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    buckwheat wrote: »
    Padraig Flynn :cool:
    He certainly brought down himself and a lot of rubbish like himself = = the boy done well ! !


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    #64
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    blinding wrote: »
    He certainly brought down himself and a lot of rubbish like himself = = the boy done well ! !

    I wanna tell you something, try it sometime


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    #65
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    I wanna tell you something, try it sometime
    I saw him in a Pub in Mayo over 30/35 years ago doing a FF thing ~ ~ I kid you not ~ ~ He looked like a slimy slippery yoke in a shiny slippery looking suit and his hair greased back ! !

    If you were making a film about such a politicians and how that sort of politician looked in his earlier days he was perfect for the role.

    I was in the Pub for other reasons ~ ~ honest ! !


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    #66
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,272 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    DonalK1981 wrote: »
    Current choices would include Pearse Doherty, Mick Wallace, Clare Daly, Ming, Catherine Connolly, Joan Collins, Eamon O Cuiv and Ireland's first female Taoiseach in waiting and first leader who will not hail from either FF or FG Mary Lou McDonald. I am including MLM on the hope that if given the chance a change would do the country good.

    Reasons being they either fight against corrupt practises and/or represent the interests of their constituents without using the office as a meal ticket. Those mentioned, in my opinion at least, would do the job they do without pay.

    FF is exactly where Mary Lou hailed from.

    I've no axe to grind with her though she is a capable politician but she is from the same wealthy middle class backround as the rest of them.


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    #67
    bmc58
    Registered Users Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭bmc58


    Tony Gregory.


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    #68
    ExMachina1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    They are all brilliant. Current and past

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/tds-and-senators-claim-nearly-14-million-expenses-1.1309718


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    #69
    Galwayguy35
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    Charles Stewart Parnell seemed to be a decent politician, someone the present shower of well paid trough feeders fall well short of.


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    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,893 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    Jack Chambers -no ability, no charm, no charisma & not impressive in any way yet he still gets paid.


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    #71
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Poor_old_gill wrote: »
    Jack Chambers -no ability, no charm, no charisma & not impressive in any way yet he still gets paid.
    LOL:D


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    #72
    Rodney Bathgate
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    Violet Anne Wynne.

    Managed to live rent free for 4 years.


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    #73
    Edgware
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    blinding wrote: »
    He certainly brought down himself and a lot of rubbish like himself = = the boy done well ! ![/quo

    What about the daughter. Beverly? She's a class act as the father would say


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    #74
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Edgware wrote: »
    blinding wrote: »
    He certainly brought down himself and a lot of rubbish like himself = = the boy done well ! ![/quo

    What about the daughter. Beverly? She's a class act as the father would say
    That Old Cooker did not fall far from the Old Tree ! !


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    #75
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    blinding wrote: »
    I saw him in a Pub in Mayo over 30/35 years ago doing a FF thing ~ ~ I kid you not ~ ~ He looked like a slimy slippery yoke in a shiny slippery looking suit and his hair greased back ! !

    If you were making a film about such a politicians and how that sort of politician looked in his earlier days he was perfect for the role.

    I was in the Pub for other reasons ~ ~ honest ! !

    Keep the car with the star in Castlebar


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