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[magnetize]

ahh!

 

[Ciansy]

What is it that the government in this country has against public transport? Is it more immediately profitable for them (through backhanders and 'favours owed' and the like) to build roads rather than railways? Because it's obvious to anyone with half a degree of sense (of whom there are at least three in the cabinet) that public transport is the only way not to make shit of the country in the medium term and the world in the long term.

 

[broken arm]

What is it that the government in this country has against public transport? I

cos boggerswon't walk the few dozen miles to the nearest train/bus station.

why do they* continue to live in the bogs? so they have somewhere to bury their crocks of gold


*the boggers

 

[Anthony]

i'm so fired from large mound...

damn right.

I go to Tara Hill all the time. At least 2 - 4 times a month.

The other route is shorter and will cost less to build but obviously doesn't go through some FFers land. Someone is winning big time out of this. Why else would the deliberatley so through all this hassle.

Nobody says we don't need the road, nobody. Just not that one.

 

[pete]

i love this country.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has indicated that Independent Mayo TD Beverley Flynn will be re-admitted to the Fianna Fáil party. Ms Flynn was expelled from the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party in 2004 after the Supreme Court upheld a High Court judgment which found she had facilitated tax evasion while working for National Irish Bank.
Speaking on RTÉ Radio's News At One, Mr Ahern said she could not expect to be given a junior ministerial position at this stage but can have a realistic expectation of holding office at some stage during the lifetime of the administration.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0615/fiannafail.html

Independent Co Mayo TD Beverly Flynn has initiated a constitutional challenge to provisions of the Electoral Act 1992 which prevent a person who is a court-declared bankrupt from being a member of the Dáil.

The proceedings were mentioned today by Gerard Hogan SC, for Ms Flynn, before Mr Justice Thoams Smyth who directed they go before the Bankruptcy Court on Monday when an application by RTE to have Ms Flynn adjudicated a bankrupt is due before the court.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0615/breaking73.htm


All very fucking convenient. How long does a constitutional challenge take these days?

 

[Diddles]

i love this country.


http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0615/fiannafail.html



http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0615/breaking73.htm


All very fucking convenient. How long does a constitutional challenge take these days?

This is disgusting.

This is a dirty, dirty country, in every sense.

 

[plug]

depressing stuff!

 

[broken arm]

i think it's hilarious

 

[Diddles]

i think it's hilarious

Actually, you have to laugh don't you. This country is gas

 

[broken arm]

Actually, you have to laugh don't you. This country is gas

yea. up the ra.

 

[Diddles]

I miss the RA. BBC NI news has gone to shit without them.

 

[pete]

Electoral Act rule on bankruptcy challenged by Flynn

Independent Co Mayo TD Beverley Flynn yesterday initiated a constitutional challenge that could delay the bankruptcy proceedings that are being taken against her by RTÉ. Colm Keena and Miriam Donohoe report.
The move coincided with comments by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in which he indicated Ms Flynn was likely to be offered a junior ministerial post in the lifetime of the current Government.
High Court proceedings to have Ms Flynn declared a bankrupt are scheduled to begin on Monday.
The procedure to have someone declared a bankrupt usually takes approximately three months, but can take much longer in certain circumstances, according to legal sources.
If Ms Flynn is declared a bankrupt under the terms of the Electoral Act 1992, she would automatically lose her Dáil seat if, after six months, she still remained a bankrupt.
Yesterday Gerard Hogan SC, for Ms Flynn, initiated proceedings to have the relevant sections of the Electoral Act declared unconstitutional. Mr Justice Thomas Smyth directed that the case go before the Bankruptcy Court on Monday when the application by RTÉ to have Ms Flynn adjudicated a bankrupt is due to be heard.
Whether the constitutional challenge will prevent the bankruptcy proceedings going ahead, will not be clear until the court sits. Also, it is not clear whether the constitutional challenge can go ahead given that Ms Flynn is not a bankrupt.
Ms Flynn owes more than €2.84 million in legal fees arising out of failed libel proceedings she took against RTÉ. The jury in the case found that Ms Flynn had, when an employee of National Irish Bank, advised or encouraged certain persons to evade tax. Ms Flynn does not have sufficient assets to cover the debt. An offer by Ms Flynn to give 20 per cent of her salary to RTÉ would not pay for the accumulating interest on the debt owed, according to a source with knowledge of the case.
Ms Flynn, who was a Fianna Fáil TD until she was expelled from the parliamentary party three years ago after losing her libel action against RTÉ, is one of the Independent TDs supporting the new Government. Asked if she had a legitimate expectation to be an office holder in the lifetime of the current government, the Taoiseach replied: "I think that's a fair expectation."
© 2007 The Irish Times

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/0616/1181771180357.html

 

[IFF]

i love this country.


http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0615/fiannafail.html



http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0615/breaking73.htm


All very fucking convenient. How long does a constitutional challenge take these days?

the way a former business studies teacher said it in class is if a person can't manage their own finances, why the hell should they be allowed to manage the country

 

[pete]

the way a former business studies teacher said it in class is if a person can't manage their own finances, why the hell should they be allowed to manage the country

it'd be more the whole "encouraging tax evasion" angle i'd be concerned about, but it's a fair point.

 

[Space]

"Bertie Ahern is a dirty cunt.
Beverly Flynn is a dirty cunt."

Captain Moonlight knows the score.

 

[pete]

At least Bertie's still got his sense of humour...

Conor Lenihan becomes Minister with Responsibility for Integrating the Immigrant Community.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0620/politics.html

The Socialist Party TD, Joe Higgins, has said that the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Conor Lenihan, should resign his post if he was referring to the Turkish GAMA Construction workers as kebabs.

Mr Higgins was speaking on RTÉ's News At One in response to comments made by Mr Lenihan in the Dáil this morning in which he urged Mr Higgins, who has campaigned on behalf of the Turkish GAMA workers, to 'stick with the kebabs'.


Mr Lenihan's comment came as Mr Higgins questioned the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, during Leaders' Questions about the future ownership of Aer Lingus.


Mr Higgins condemned the comment as 'snide', and said it ill behoved the minister to make comments in such a way.




Earlier this afternoon, Mr Lenihan returned to the Dáil to say he regretted the remarks, and apologised sincerely if any offence had been caused or taken.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0518/lenihanc.html

 

[flashback]

Classic Bertie.

 

[Goff]

That's me sorted. Twice over. Deadly.

Bertie is gas alright.

 

[therealjohnny]

http://www.yourtechstuff.com/techwire/2009/04/im-not-answerable-to-you.html

"I'm not answerable to you."

Yesterday, I got a call from Conor Lenihan, the new junior minister for science, technology, innovation and natural resources.
I had written a critical column (in the SBP, last Sunday) about how junior ministers are appointed to their jobs. In this vein, I criticised Lenihan's appointment, claiming that he had no grounding in technology issues.
I thought long and hard about writing a follow-up column this Sunday. But I decided not to, as it might seem, in the context, that I was unduly victimising an easy target (damned journalistic ethics).
However, I do think that the issues he raised are of public interest. So here is the conversation we had.

 

[MDR]

You waited two years to respond to this thread?