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A synopsis-the Ahern years.
"He couldn’t fool us forever. The plain people of Ireland are not plain stupid."
"As Bertie snivelled his way into imminent obscurity, he declared that his great regret was not to have built a national stadium. No, you heard him right. He’s not losing any sleep over the state of the health service, public transport or education, he’s miffed that he didn’t get to build a white elephant no one asked for and no one’s felt the lack of since."
20,000 more 'non national' taxi drivers wanted:
"An overview of the asylum seeker situation estimated that 90 per cent of claims are bogus; that many are seeking asylum simultaneously in Britain and Ireland while travelling back and forth to their home countries; that Northern Ireland is the most frequent route into and out of the Republic because of the absence of any Border checks; and that people who fail to gain asylum status immediately move from one jurisdiction to the other
The cost of dealing with asylum seekers will reach €300m this year, with Irish lawyers making a killing from an estimated 1,200 judicial reviews of deportation cases by people who have entered the country illegally.
Each of the reviews is likely to cost the State at least €30,000 to €50,000 and some €20m is being set aside to cover legal costs to the Exchequer, as all are on legal aid."
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/corruption.htm
The brother of HSE Chief Executive Professor Brendan Drumm is leading a revolt by more than 40 hospital consultants who have told the executive they won't collaborate with the co-location strategy they believe will create one hospital for the rich and another for the poor.
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/healthreform.htm
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/healthshambles.htm
A spade is always a spade:
One might get the impression,during his last peerless "Public relations exercise"excursions around the Boyne etc. that Mr Ahern singlehandedly brought peace to the Island.
Even the purchase of this site was mired in controversy and stroke politics!!
What- peace aside- exactly is his legacy?
The poor are today dying for want of effective health care
A two tier society has been created: -those with lifelong, highly paid pensionable jobs, and those young people outside the vast inefficient bureaucracy of the state, now heading for uncertain times, and possibly re-possession of their jerry-built, two bedroomed, flats in traffic choked out-lands of Leinster (and further afield)
The water is undrinkable in many parts of the "privatized" island of Ireland and sewage still pours into our rivers and on to our beaches-both from town and farm alike.
So called "one off' habitations-many of them holiday homes- litter the countryside, from Donegal to Dingle, all to indulge and fatten the pockets of farmers and developer cronies alike (the Ballybrit Brethren).
The pestilent spread of this chaotic rural blight is notably perceptible by satellite camera,(European Space Agency) and now the soaring cost of private transport and fuel prices will add to demands for further inflationary wage demands as people queue for longer and longer to reach their workplace.
Let us call a spade a spade-waffle aside.
Some Taoiseach,-some legacy.!
Journalists-be afraid,-be very afraid.!
Left: Brian Cowan engaging with a troublesome journalist.
Toll bridge rip-off scheme-a bureaucratic nightmare that only a Fianna Fail inspired quango could envisage?
AA spokesman Conor Faughnan said the toll collection scheme is overly complicated. He added that, given how other major state IT projects have gone "pear-shaped", he does not hold out much confidence that it will work this time.
"It is an insanely expensive and complex mechanism. The Government would be far better off if they simply threw the barriers over the side of the bridge and let it become a proper motorway which it was supposed to be all along.
"It's estimated that the toll revenue generated per annum will be €80m; however €25m will go on the cost of collection. That's the same as 83 new buses for Dublin Bus every year, forever, just to collect these tolls... For a net benefit of €55m per year it seems extremely wasteful," he said
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Revolutionary solution to alcohol (and laptop) addiction.!
The way it was.
Before you begin your journey..
We are a group of Irish motorists who are fed up seeing speed traps located on some of the the safest roads in the country. We believe the main factor in deciding the location of speed traps is not to improve road safety but merely an attempt to increase the "detection rate" statistics for speeding offences and generate additional revenue for the GovernmentEuropean(and Irish) beef barons, in receipt of billions of euros in subsidies, nobble Brazilian exporters.
"This campaign is a well devised protectionist conspiracy not only against our exports but also against European consumers, who will be forced to pay even higher prices for a product which is already overpriced," the Brazilian ambassador claimed.
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) called on the Government to veto any deal at the WTO talks which would be "detrimental to the farming community".
ICSA president Malcolm Thompson was speaking at the meeting addressed today (17th April 2008) by Mr Barroso.
Mr Thompson said: “Giving away so much already at the WTO talks represents one of the most shortsighted and potentially calamitous policy developments in the history of the European Union.”
Oxymoron of the year.!
He continued: “World food scarcities can only be alleviated by all farmers being encouraged to produce food and being paid a reasonable price for their effort, not by freeing up trade to the extent that many farmers are driven out of business.”
REPS (Rural Environment Protection Scheme), another stunt to enrich farmers, is supposedly a Scheme designed to reward Farmers for carrying our their farming activities in an environmentally friendly manner and to bring about environmental improvement on existing farms.
The vague and etherial objectives of the Scheme are to:
Establish farming practices and production methods which reflect the increasing concern for conservation, landscape protection and wider environmental problems;
Protect wildlife habitats and endangered species of flora and fauna;
Produce quality food in an extensive and environmentally friendly manner.
One presumes that these "objectives" would be "norms" for any self respecting farmer.They are not of course. Farmers pollute rivers and lakes as a matter of course-and with total impunity.
REPS consists of an annual payment of a whopping €200 per hectare for the first 20 hectares, €175 per hectare for the next 20 hectares, €70 per hectare for the next 15 hectares and €10 per hectare for the remaining hectares.
The farmers have opposed unnanounced inspections for compliance with all these normal procedures and demanded two weeks notice before inspectors can call to check their farms.
There is of course a plethora of grants and subsidies for farmers for overpriced beef and milk production, trimming hedges, feeding wild birds etc etc and other such nonsense too long to mention. (the subsidy laden "quota" for the milk had to be stopped as it was so ruinous to the CAP budget it threatened bankruptcy and is now so valuable it is actually traded between farmers on the open market,much like taxi plates used to change hands for big money before the state started selling them for 5000 Euros each)
If you or I invaded a government office and staged a sit-in we would be promptly removed by the gallant Gardai.Not so the IFA. They have arranged a show "sit-in" and a "hunger strike" by stalwart,Donal O'Brien who said he would not leave the building in Raheen Industrial Estate, Limerick, until he had received his REPS payments from the State which he claims is overdue.
Sunday June 18 2006
the Early Retirement Scheme and Disadvantaged Area Payments. The Government has reportedly offered more than €5.5bn!!http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/poorfarmers.htm
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/milkingfarmers.htm
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/celialarkin.htm
The silence from the "consumer protection agency" (of which the lovely Celia Larkin is a board appointee, thanks to our Bertie)-is deafening.
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/agric_e/chair_texts08_e.htm
Leaked-Cowan's inauguration soliloquy-awaiting Ahern's pending resignation.!
My holiday album begins, away from the Mahon Tribunal and all the Fianna Fail shit. (background) : click on "photo gallery" above.
We got this highly confidential document below (for a brown envelope..),from a source in the Government Press Office, whom we therefore cannot name,for obvious reasons:
"It is with profound regret that I have today accepted, on behalf of the Government, the resignation of the Taoiseach,Bartholomew Ahern, and his resignation from Dáil Éireann. Pending the appointment of a successor I, will assume responsibility for the day to day duties of his office.
His outstanding record of public service over the past forty years, initially as a T.D.,then Lord Mayor; Minister for Labour; and Minister for Finance. as well as the remarkable "anti treaty" I.R.A. service of his late father,Con Ahern, demonstrates in real terms the deep commitment of the Ahern family to republican principles, murder and mayhem, and the people of Dublin North and Dublin County.
Both he and his family can feel immensely proud of the major role he played in Government, in successfully achieving the breakthrough which resulted in today's historic events in the North. I thank him for the consummate professionalism with which he always fulfilled in his Ministerial duties.
"Bertie"- as we all effectionately knew the greatest con man the party has ever thrown up - always distinguished himself in the Ministries to which he was appointed, by his great managerial capabilities and his high work-rate, which unfortunately led to the dissolution of his marriage, but unlike his predecessor CJH, he courageously displayed his new amour among the political gliterrati on the world stage for all to see, despite the bishop bashing he endured from the ungrateful clerics who benefitted so enormously from his largesse. .
He brought further distinction to the proud Fianna Fail "family" tradition,of accepting money from countless businessmen both here at home and in the great diaspora resident in John Bull's country. Bertie magnanimously enriched close cronies, donors, work colleagues, girl friends, and needy constituents alike. This country owes him a debt of gratitude for his work on behalf of the nation, and his constant commitment to quality performance in sourcing so much hard cash from such a diversity of donors.."
Those who choose politics as a profession, know from the outset that they are putting their reputations on the line in their determination to serve the public,while maintaining an adequate lifestyle on the meagre recompense of a TD's salary and expenses. (350,000 eurosper annum)They have to accept the criticism which attends their decisions and their every action. Their families too learn to take the brunt of stinging remarks, about enormous waste of money, gross incompetence,holiday junkets abroad, and so on, which often overstep the boundaries of civility and courtesy.
In the case of Bertie Ahern, I see a much more sinister development: the persistent hounding of an honourable man to resign his important position, on the basis of innuendo and unproven allegations.
Some who would class themselves as protectors of basic civil rights have harried and hounded this man without according him the basic right of due process, which deems us innocent unless proven guilty. I believe personally that the according of due process is not just a basic right, but the very essence of common decency.
There has been a sustained campaign of incremental intensity. When this debate first began there were calls for Bertie Ahern to make a public statement. He did so, before the nation, courtesy of Brian Dobson on R.T.E, in a frank and open manner which deeply moved the entire population
. Then there were demands for a Dáil Statement, followed by Questions and Answers. But when it was agreed that theTribunal would continue to deal with all the issues fairly and comprehensively, that was still not enough.
There comes a time when even the strongest shoulder bows, when even the stoutest heart falters, when even the very best can resist no longer."
"I regret the resignation of Bertie Ahern, my party colleague for thirty years and my Cabinet colleague for most of that period.
I deeply regret the reasons for his resignation and the pain and anguish caused to his estranged wife Miriam, his daughters Georgina & Cecelia, his long time partner Celia Larkin,and all his family and friends. It is an indictment of those involved in forcing him to this pass, that they clamoured for his resignation without giving him the proper opportunity of proving his case before the Tribunal has dug out the dirt on him, in it's totality.
I always found him to be a proud honourable man, loyal and true, persevering and principled, caring and committed but tough, yet a person who had friends, too numerous to mention, when cash was needed.
On behalf of the Government and particularly on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party, not forgetting loyal I.F.A supporters, index linked pensioners & comfortable public servants nationwide,-we wish him well in his new million a year job in Brussells .
Bertie, may your strongbox always be flush with 50 Euro notes, legitimate ones this time.may you distinguish yourself in the new Europe, which you were instrumental in establishing with a massive "yes" vote. I thank you for your distinguished years in the service of your constituents and country." (Brian Cowan)
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/celialarkin.htm
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/theageofthemessiah.htm
// Rustlers round up feral goats in overnight raid: in Ireland no goat is safe!
GARDAI are investigating the theft of up to 50 goats that were allegedly removed from the Burren in the middle of the night , bundled into a truck and driven away. The incident has sparked calls from Burren farmers for a proper management system to be put in place for the feral goats in the region.
The chairman of the Old Irish Goats Society, Colin Johnson -- who witnessed the incident early last Saturday and reported it to gardai -- said yesterday: "The 50 goats that were taken away last weekend are just a group of hundreds that are removed each year from the Burren.
"Some anecdotal evidence suggests that the goats turn up in the food chain where they are sold to ethnic butchers in the UK for example."
A resident of the Burren, Mr Johnson, said he was "manhandled" when he tried to protest to the men who were taking the goats away.
He said most of the goats that the society have been trying to protect over the past few years have disappeared.
Gordon Deegan
© Irish Independent 18.04.08
Important Curriculum Vitae info on the new Taoiseach.!
Boy do we get what we deserve. There must be a better way"
HISTORY will judge the contribution of Bertie Ahern.
"I believe it will largely be a positive one when it comes to his stewardship of the peace process and our relations with our European partners, but perhaps less so when it comes to his management of the economy and our public services.
The Taoiseach’s resignation represents an opportunity for a fresh start in Irish politics
An opportunity to put behind us forever a country ruled by the 11th commandment whereby any activity was acceptable so long as you did not get caught.
Old Ireland was a country in which the wealthy and powerful did not have to pay their taxes ... politicians took money from private individuals and their own party for personal use ... planning permission was only a guideline ... rules were made to be broken ... the law was unevenly enforced ... who you knew was more important than what you knew, and values such as loyalty counted for more than honesty or integrity.
Unfortunately, that Ireland is not fully behind us. Still in power are the tánaiste, ministers and parties that turned a deaf ear to the evidence presented at the tribunals, the bizarre, changing explanations given to the Dáil by Ahern and the initiation of investigations by the revenue commissioners.
The inability of these Ahern supporters to demonstrate any courage or backbone is proof we have not yet come of age as a modern democratic state.
Brian Cowen may have his political honeymoon, but the struggle for high standards in public office and a government that acts solely in the public interest goes on.
Leo Varadkar TD
Leinster House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2.!"
A species facing extinction-the native taxidriver.!
“Take life in instalments. This day now, at least
let this be a good day. Be always beginning, let the past go. Now let me do
whatever I have the power to do.”Fishermen criminalized-at last!
Tall Tribunal Tales, (with a foreword by Grainne Carruthers)
How can we believe Ahern’s amazing technicolour stories?
A ¨" Review" 30 March 2008 By Vincent Browne
Ahern´s real legacy.?
MORE than one million people are drinking tap water from public supplies on an official pollution "name-and-shame" dossier finally published the day Bartholmew Ahern resigned.!
The 339 public supplies listed -- many of which are identified as not removing deadly bugs properly, such as cryptosporidium -- provide drinking water to 1,260,541 people.
The damning list, affecting more than a quarter of the population, was finally published yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/environdestructagency.htm
One of the most informative and useful sites on the web:
http:// www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.net.
Best political blog/diatribe/rant & slander site on the web
Containing incredible slanders, slurs, libels and all the rest.. directed at the finest government that the people have ever elected-and reelected-for the past two decades.This man calls a spade a spade, but perhaps it takes a government of rogues to govern a nation of rogues ?
Latest on your bin tax fiasco.
THE Government is going to have to pay the lion's share of a €200 million bill to repatriate almost 800,000 tonnes of waste originating from the south, but dumped in the north.!!
Special announcement.
Important notice to all full time taxi drivers.
Your industry and your livelihood is being destroyed by the unregulated issue of new licences. There were 4000 new licences issued in 2007 alone. There were three times the number of applicants for PSV driving licences in January 2008 as in the same month last year.
Your unions are Judas Goats.They have sold you down the river. They -like the government- are making a fortune from the issue of new taxi plates and new drivers membership fees.
A new organization is being formed.It which will truly representing taxi drivers interests.Protest plans are in place.Only when 10,000 taxis line up at government buildings, and nation wide strike action commences will the governments new Quango "Taxi Regulator" take notice.
Reject the fat cat union bosses.
Reform under new leadership
Refuse to pay any more membership fees to the Judas Goats.
React now-or lose your livelihood-the choice is yours.
No other group of workers would stand by like sheep and watch their jobs destroyed while fancy brochures and new restrictions are dreamed up daily by indifferent bureaucrats in secure state employment.
Stand together.Stand united now.It is your last opportunity. Tomorrow is too late. Hundreds of new licences are pouring onto the overcrowded ranks monthly, as the economy goes into recession.
Remember,every driver is facing diminishing earnings-and longer hours, chasing less business-even if the issue of plates was halted tomorrow.
it's your job.It's your choice.
Protest-or perish.
Issued by the Emergency Committee For the Preservation of Livelihoods of Full Time Taxi Drivers.
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/taxitaxi.htm
Scoop-Bertie's career highlight, the american speech he will never make.!
Joe Higgins in the Irish Daily Mail
February 29, 2008 on 9:06 pm | In Reality news |Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is to address the United States Congress on April 30th. We can expect his speech to be strong on hyperbole, and sprinkled with clichés heard on such occasions. Today, I thought I would draft a speech for the Taoiseach that might be more in tune with political reality.
‘Honourable Members of Congress,
‘My appreciation for the great honour of addressing your joint Houses of Congress is exceeded only by my relief at getting out of Ireland. Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ declared that a prophet is never honoured in his own country and I can tell you, he never spoke a truer word.
‘For 30 years I have, as you say in America, rolled out the pork barrel for the Irish people - well, for some of them, anyway. Amnesties for tax cheats, billions in tax cuts to speculators and big corporations, the national airline and telecommunications industry given over to our big business friends to sweat, thousands of millionares living it up in tax exile - you name it.
‘Imagine what it took to get the crowd in Northern Ireland around the same trough. Now they are slurping away as happily as any of us.
‘And despite all that, ladies and gentlemen of Congress, back in Ireland a few begrudgers just want to know where a few extra sides of pork that finished up in my barrel 15 years ago came from. Can any of us remember where the rashers we had for our breakfast last year came from?
‘On auspicious occasions like this, it is customary to allude to the common bonds than join our two great countries. there are many.
‘You have the American Mafia. We have the Drumcondra Mafia. Your mafia observe omerta - never spill the beans. Wild horses wouldn’t get the truth out of ours. Your mafia protect the rackets, ours protect me.
‘A simple look at the internet under “US political scandals” shows that among your two great parties, Republicans and Democrats, there are as many chancers and cheats, speculators, spivs and liars as in my own party called Fianna Fáil.
‘Our members’ inclinations towards bribery and corruption give us a unique understanding of what drives our common political ambitions.
‘We can also learn valuable lessons from each other. I couldn’t help being struck by the fact that your members caught with their hands in the till, so to speak, are forced to resign within a few months.
‘Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you from years of experience, they don’t have to. There is another way.
Forget your select committees, committees on standards of official conduct and the like. As we say in Ireland, “The tribunal is your only man”.
‘Get a few judges and a bunch of lawyers. Give them terms of reference as wide as the Grand Canyon. Telll them they can stay at it as long as they want and let them write their own cheques. Then tell everybody they must wait for the report - and wait and wait.
‘Meanwhile, enjoy the gravy. Believe me, it works. I am still on the train ten years later!
‘Your great country has been a beacon for freedom and democracy around the world. Never mind that over the decades your government supported every dirty dictator and thief that would do business with them. In my party, we call that “pragmatism”.
‘Never mind that in the fight against terrorism you must kidnap, torture and kill. And never mind “the looney left lulus” - as I call them in Ireland - who say you might have a lot less terrorism in the world if you didn’t support dictatorships and didn’t rob the poor people’s resources.
‘We are pragmatists. And that means my government connives with yours in these things. I can assure you that we bent over backwards to help your invasion of Iraq and recently the number of your soldiers we helped get there reached the million mark. (Pause here for applause.)
‘Finally, honourable members of Congress, let me pay tribute to your great President, George W Bush. Even among us accomplished liars and cheats, he must take the prize.
‘He asked you for money to go to war for freedom and democracy. You knew it was a lie but you knew what he really wanted in Iraq, and you wanted it too. You know the real value of oil. Your corporate friends know the real value of oil, and so do I.
‘That is why we climbed over the shredded bodies of the men, women and children of Iraq to secure it.
‘Honourable members of Congress, I believe we understand each other very well.
‘God bless America and Ireland - and God bless any poor fools that look to us for a better world.’
(From Another Voice Joe Higgins Wednesday February 27th 2008, Irish Daily Mail
The dreaded "Mahon Virus "strikes.!
Extreme left: Decontamination scene in 'St Luke's'. Top right: CDC agents arrive.Lower right:Latest victim.
Both Dublin Castle and St Luke's Fianna Fail H.Q. Drumcondra, were cordoned off yesterday by an emergency response team flown in from America, and based in the CDC (Centre for Disease Control) in Atlanta.
The Minister for Health Mary Hearney acknowledged that the local HSA ( Health & Safety Authority) were unequipped to deal with the current outbreak of an uknown strain of Cerebral Amnesia, which has been provisionally named "Mahon Virus"
Many former staff and associates of Mr Ahern have succumbed to the illness. The disease causes rapid mental deterioration and strikes down young and old alike.
The latest victim ,is Grainne Carruth, a young married woman with three children.
Experts have established that most of the victims were present in both locations at one time or another, and agents of the CDC were visible yesterday digging around for evidence of contamination in the vicinity of "St Lukes"
Grainne was found wandering around Dublin castle in a visibly distraught state, yesterday and when intervied by the investigators she had even forgotten where she lived; the names of her three children;and pretty much everything about her many years in Mr Ahern's employ.
She said she had written down her home address before leaving the house on a piece of paper that morning, but had forgotten where she put it. If anybody recognises the lady-pictured above ,and knows where she lives-please contact you local Garda Station. immediately.
Grainne lied for loyalty. Bertie lied because the Irish Permanent Building Society once told Tim Collins that it didn't have records going back that far.
Turns out that they did. The rotten edifice collapses.
Will 2008 be the year Fianna Fail implode-at last.?
Plus -incredible offer from St Luke´s DVD megastore: Drumcondra.The complete (to date) series of the longest running, most expensive, real life courtroom drama, in the history of the irish legal profession.This collectors set of 1000 DVD´s of "The Fugitive" (starring Bart Ahern) has everything: Political corruption, illicit sex,courtroom confrontation, mistresses in high places, untruths (Lies), Digouts,Denials, bluff, bravado, and bonhomie; you name it.!
Full details of this unique opportunity and how to purchase the DVD collectors set, plus a synopsis of a few of the enthralling episodes are availible here:
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/deepshitesynopsis.htm
Sir - Aaaah! I screamed at my computer as my blood boiled while reading that Dublin TDs are claiming €25,000 a year in expenses and countrywide the figure is considerably more than this. My job is delivering white goods, with a meagre take-home pay of €407 per week; that's €21,164 a year, for a back-breaking job.
I am off work for the past two months with a back injury that gives no sign of healing. Unfortunately, I did not have personal or loss of earnings insurance. I was aware of such insurance, but I could not afford it as I have a family of four to support and my wife worked part-time with take-home pay approx €250 per week, but now she has started her maternity leave with the baby due within a week or so.
My boiling blood has turned to a sick-sinking feeling of despair as my employer is not paying me anything since I became ill, which is their right, apparently.
So, all I'm getting now is a disability benefit of €165.80 per week. Serves you right for not having yourself properly insured, some might say. Well, that seems to be the Government's view as well, as they do not care about the ordinary workers, the 'backbone' of Ireland. Their policy on the low pay workers seems to be - use 'em up and wear 'em out, and consign them to a life of benefit-stricken poverty.
Is this the view of the other political parties, as their voices are very quiet on the quality for the 'genuinely' sick? Will they think about us while they are collecting their expenses which is more than some of us are getting for a year of back-breaking work.
Surely they can run their offices and their cars on the large wages that they are getting, and stop screwing the tax-payer. I'm sure that their 'expenses' will come in very handy at this time of year while people like myself who are on injury or disability benefit won't get the Christmas bonus like our counterparts who are on unemployment benefit.
Christmas is a bleak time for us on the 'sick', but at least I'll have my baby son or daughter to look forward to. Please God.
Name and Address with Editor (Sunday Independent Dec.2006)
"Stab victim,-cast a cold eye on life,on death.. Beaumont Hospital-pass by!"
"This is a scandal. A scandal for Bertie Ahern. A scandal for Mary Harney. A scandal for the HSE. A scandal for the Government. A scandal for the limp Opposition. And a scandal for the local politicians. Here is a major trauma centre in a national hospital having to get down on its knees to beg for basic equipment.
The poor should be worried. And so, may I say, should the rich. If you have a knife stuck between your shoulder-blades, it is no time to go flashing your Plan E card at the Gullawntha Medical Clinic with the oak tree in the atrium and three ladies playing the harp. You will be redirected to the public hospital and advised to have a nice day."
Beaumont; Charles Haughey´s greatest legacy:It´s more than just an MRSA riddled public hospital ,you know..
(To be followed by the "Bertie Ahern Memorial Childrens mega hospital" , close by "St Luke´s" Drumcondra.)
When the shit hit the heavenly fan!
We stole this joke from the www.resignmrahern.com site. Simply because it had me in stitches before breakfast.And laughter is the finest tonic to start your day. Enjoy!
Paddy died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are all those clocks?" St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move." "Oh," said the Paddy "Whose clock is that?" "That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie." "Incredible," said the Paddy. "And whose clock is that one?" St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life." "Where's Bertie Aherne's?" asked the man. "Bertie's clock is in God's office. He's using it as a fan." 
new "Swimming experience" planned for Fianna Fail TD´s in Dublins dockland (complete with musical diversion.!)
A SWIMMING pool is to be located in the middle of the River Liffey, introducing a whole new 'Liffey Swim' experience.The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has announced plans to build a swimming pool on the Liffey next year, along with a "floating village marina".The swimming pool will join the Liffey river taxi as one of the attractions of riverside life. Much of the old waterside life disappeared after the docks ceased to be workplaces frequented by Dublin's dockers, and became a goldmine for Ballybrit tenters.A specific location for the Liffey "swimming pool" has not yet been decided.) David Higgins, DDDA director of finance, said the planned project was part of the River Regeneration Strategy for Dublin Docklands.
And to the music:
St Vincent De Paul Society: we have moved.
WHAT FF's PR MACHINE REPLIES:
1. It’s turned into a witch-hunt into his personal finances.
No, it hasn’t. An allegation was made that he had taken money. They investigated his accounts and found hundreds of thousands of pounds in them. They asked him to explain the source of the money. He can’t.
2. A different standard applied at the time - all this ethics business is quite new
Since when was it not required to pay tax on your personal income?
3. We should wait until the Tribunal reports
Why? John Bruton ordered Michael Lowry to resign within 24hours of learning of his payments from Ben Dunne on which he had paid no tax (for work actually carried out! unlike Bertie). Some people don’t need a tribunal to tell them how to act.
4. The people knew all this anyway before the election
No they didn’t. Substantially new information has come out in even just the past month.
5. It doesn’t matter cos he did a deal on the North
Who said that being tax compliant and delivering on political issues were mutually exclusive?
6. Lots of people have tax issues
And we can see why. Why should they pay taxes if successive FIANNA FAIL TAOISIGH don’t bother.
7. Other politicians in other political parties took money
And they were wrong too.
8. It’s important to be loyal to the leader
And debase everyone associated with politics in the meantime. And themselves.
9. Fine Gael and Labour lost the election so tough luck.
I don’t care. The Taoiseach took money for Fianna Fail and kept it for himself. Took money for himself and didn’t pay his taxes. He told huge lies to the people in the Brian Dobson interview. Even if the people re-elected him tomorrow it would still be wrong.
(via www.sarahcarey.ie )
Willie O´Dea rides to the rescue of Ireland´s notorious, Limerick based "Janjaweed"
(a member of the Moyross mounted "Janjaweed")
DEFENCE Minister Willie O’Dea yesterday (22,February 2008)came riding to assistance of the Moyross Janjaweed whose tribesmen have been shot at and kidnapped in the fields around Limerick.
. Bullets raked his house as McCarthy and friends sat in the front garden on a summer’s evening. Kieran Ryan and his brother Eds were at the centre of a mysterious kidnap incident in January 2003 and surfaced at a Garda station hours after gang boss Kieran Keane was murdered.
Kieran Keane was suspected of the murder of the Ryan brothers father, Eddie, in the Moose Bar in November 2000.
Build and be damned!
A DEVELOPER who built 52 holiday homes close to the Rock of Cashel has been granted "retention planning permission" for 32 of the houses.
South Tipperary County Council has granted the permission despite having previously issued an enforcement order demanding that all of the houses be demolished and the land restored to its condition "prior to the commencement of the development".!!
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council conspire with anonymous developer to buy lands cheap and rezone them( later on.. )?
Remember Carrickmines! Nothing ever changes.
Strike! strike! Everybody strike!
Irish air traffic controllers are going on strike. They are currently earning as much as €140,000 a year and are working “already low hours” of 34.7 hours per week. It also claimed they were looking for a 15% pay increase just to volunteer for overtime as well as an overtime rate of €1,200 per day. As for Aer Lingus.. what can we say? just enjoy the fun (and make sure you have a Ryanair ticket- rough and ready it is but at least you can sleep peacefully the nights before you go ).This Frankenstein company (Aer Lingus) is a creation of Fianna Fail´s appeasement policies to secure re-election in North Dublin-has to be closed down, before it can be reborn under new (union free) management. Problem is poor Michael O, cant go anywhere without ATC. Siptu´s tentacles are in the control tower too.! Ronald Regan sacked them all. God forbid, Bertie!.
United you stand- divided-Fianna Fail will continue to rule.!
If you have bought a house in Bulgaria from Michael Lynn, what can we say except repeat a phrase from the Danish: "The last fool hasnt been born yet" (You know the english equivalent..)
However if you have had money stolen from you here in Ireland by one of the numerous (mostly Fianna Fail party members) conniving thieves of the legal profession there is somebody who is trying to help you.It is not Fianna Fail. It is not the Law Society.As usual it is a body of victims who -in desperation- have come together to try and expose these scoundrels and fight for justice and proper independent regulation.
(When will we have a "Victims of the Medical Profession" lobby group?
As soon as all the splinter outfits come together to form a powerful lobby nucleus, just like the Irish Farmers Association -´who virtually run the country-by proxy,thats when, and not before. The government will then jump- when you say jump, but only when citizens stand together united and form powerful lobbys. For a start you could log on to www.gavinsblog.com and join his "Resign Mr Ahern" group on facebook, a lobby (almost 2000 young people at present) for accountability in politics. You could also attend the "Green Revolution" planned for April the 12th outside Dail Eireann. If real change is to come in our corrupt political system it must begin with our young people.
David v Goliath struggle over proposed new "rat run" on the old bog road in Leitrim.
The fledgling environmental group CLEAN (Cavan leitrim Environmental Awareness Network) has responded to criticism leveled at it by councilors at the February meeting of Leitrim County Council over legal proceedings it has brought against the local authority.The Fianna Fail/ Gombeen men of Leitrim County Council had expressed their anger that the legal proceedings initiated by CLEAN is preventing the local authority from working on and upgrading a road that crosses Boleybrack Mountain which connects the Glenfarne and Newbridge areas,and runs through an Special Area of Conservation which is covered by the EU Habitats Directive.Read on..
(Perhaps they want to rezone a few hundred acres locally for housing and need a better access road!)
If so,f*ck the "Conservation" crap- get on with the development boys!
CLEAN have also foiled the plans of Roscommon´s Fianna Fail TD Michael Finneran, who was interested in destroying another parkland of outstanding natural beauty,with a luxury hotel and adjoining golf course for the wealthy jet set.
http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/nothingsacred.htm
This is the "Head" that cost you 83 million euros.! Its not "rolling" anywhere except on his comfortable pillow at home in Co Meath.
Fresh from his novel scheme to remove half the drivers in the state from the traffic congested roads of the nation, Noel Dempsey TD
probably rated second on the buffoonery scale among the Soldiers of Destiny, finally gives closure to the long running affair (5 years ) of the Great Limerick Road Construction Disaster.
"The final bill to the taxpayer is expected to be in excess of €83m after years of legal wrangling and the employment of another company to finish the job. Ms Tallon also admitted the department ignored the advice of the Attorney General when it advised Limerick City Council to fight the case in the High Court, despite having been told during an arbitration hearing that the contract was wrongfully terminated. " (Examiner Feb 2007)
Anyway it´s nothing to do with Noel any more, he has moved on from these now Green pastures to cause chaos in other departments
Owen O´Callaghan has a fine turn of phrase.
"It is deeply disturbing to me that in a modern, civilised democracy a forum can exist where an individual can peddle such monstrous and clearly obvious lies with impunity and immunity,"
said Owen O´Callaghan, Cork based property developer,and one of a group of (heretofore) shadowy financial backers of the Fianna Fail Party. The Mahon Tribunal changed all that.Meanwhile Hazel Lawlor, widow of the beloved (by a close knit brotherhood of scoundrels) Fianna Fail TD,Liam Lawlor has asked our gallant Gardai to investigate the immunity of the Mahon Tribunal´s star whistleblower Tom Gilmartin. (William Gogarty might contest this statement,were he still with us).
As our Gardai have investigated very little corruption-or shown any interest in investigating any corruption or fraud, involving Fianna Fail TD´s councillors,or their associated speculators or businessmen, during the past three decades, Mrs Lawlor,- I see no point in their poking their noses into the very able work of the Mahon Tribunal.They have enough on their agenda in places like Moyross, and the countrywide drugs crisis and associated murders and criminality.Perhaps you and your family could help the Tribunal greatly in their work, by furnishing them with any information you possess regarding your late husbands estate and his shadowy irish partners in offshore property development in places such as Russia and the Czech Republic.No doubt he has secured his assets far from the jurisdiction of Irish Law, nevertheless where there is criminality involved-as is certainly the case-it might be possible for their ill gotten gains to be eventually sequestrated by the irish courts.At a minimum it might reveal the identity of his bedfellows (no doubt very prominent figures in the Fianna Fail Mafia of international builders/speculators/property developers
These magnates are often feted in newspaper articles as ambassadors of Celtic Tigerland,when they snap up some office block in London or Paris for 200Million Euros etc It might be remembered however that their massive war chest is money made during the past decades when our schools,hospitals, and working class neighbourhoods, suffered from underfunding, and the latter was laid waste by the drug scourge and the meanest deprivation imaginable without even an acknowledgement that such places existed on the same planet as Charles Haughey or Bertie Ahern.) Few of them(such as the notorious Bailey Brothers) paid any taxes on their building projects countrywide, and amassed massive wealth to bankroll land and property purchases here and abroad.
Come Mrs Lawlor save yourself now and perhaps your late husband ,who may not be beyond your prayers and penitence.
Remember the phrase:
"What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world-and loses his immortal soul".Ideas like that, are rather unfashionable in Ireland nowadays given that wealth-at any price- is the new God. You opted for a church funeral and a christian burial, so its worth making a decision now Mrs Lawlor-to help the Mahon Tribunal or to continue in your late husbands mission of impeding them at every turn.?
Fianna Fail´s own Martin Goebbels lambastes the truth about the EU.
Manseragh,as gifted-and as loose with the truth-as his predecessor Martin Goebbels was in a former "Third (Reich) Term"government in Nazi Germany .
EU fundamentally undemocratic — ‘that’s a fact’(Examiner letters section)
DR MARTIN MANSERGH (Letters, February 2) rubbished the claims of Eurosceptics, but made no attempt to prove these claims wrong — the reason of course being he couldn’t do so simply because they are not wrong.
Dr Manserg criticises Eurosceptics for saying the EU is fundamentally undemocratic.
He didn’t deny this claim simply because it is true.
If the EU wasn’t fundamentally undemocratic, it would allow the people of every member state to vote on the Lisbon treaty and accept the outcome of each referendum. It doesn’t.
The EU has denied millions of people their democratic right to decide how they wish to be governed. Therefore, Eurosceptics are right.
The EU doesn’t respect the democratic rights of the people of those states. The EU is fundamentally undemocratic. That is a matter of fact — not opinion.
Dr Mansergh also criticises Eurosceptics who claim the EU "places the power of decision-making in the hands of unelected and unaccountable officials".
It was interesting to note he didn’t deny this claim either.
He couldn’t because it is true.
If we endorse the Lisbon treaty, our laws will be made by commissioners whom we never elected and whom we can never vote out of office.
Margaret Thatcher may have got a lot of things wrong, but the facts show she wasn’t wrong about the EU.
Nora Bennis
Revington Park
Limerick