This afternoon
Thomastown, Co Kilkenny
Eamonn writes:
Tanaiste and Minister for Social Welfare Joan Burton takes an aborted canoe trip with junior minister for Rural Affairs Ann Phelan to view damage caused to the home of Chem Caulfield on the [Kilkenny] Quays. Unfortunately during the trip, the canoe capsised and the two ministers ended up in the flood water which was a couple of feet deep. The canoe was being towed by Mr. Caulfield.
(Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews)
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Desperate lurch to the left before the election leaves her struggling in Irish Water.
If only she had a few more PAYE mugs to pay for her bailout.
Please God, the i-phone is OK. If not, I’m sure the Department of Social Protection can source a new one for her.
Dumb person capsizes
How convenient for little miss adventurer that there are two men in blue shirts on hand to rescue her.
Teresa Mannion warned you NOT TO MAKE UNNECESSARY JOURNEYS!
Joan Of Ark!
oh that’s brilliant!
Irish Water leads to Burton’s downfall.
+1
It was a foot of water, what was she doing in the canoe. She is such a little princess, what next for Joan maybe charge the canoe puller with bad pulling technique. What could she spin this charge into, attempted drowning!!!
Yep, look at her, bet onto the gunwales with a death grip, staring at the boat, not the horizon. No paddle to balance. So much fail.
Paul Murphy better have an alibi handy
It was a very bad idea to have the Tánaiste and a TD being towed about by a member of the public like Marie Antoinette.
Yeah, she’s so entitled. And she’s breaking the law by not wearing a life jacket.
She could have paddled! FFS
When second in command is in the poo, it’s reassuring to know she doesn’t have a paddle.
Labour’s way or Frankfurt’s way…..but not boatways!
Don’t show the pictures where she helped the other lady get out of the water. Vote Flanagan and Fitzmaurice – keep digging those bogs up.
“Don’t show the pictures where she helped the other lady get out of the water.”
There’d be higher levels of water in a bath.. go way our that.
It was up to her ankles.
That’s what the old wizen gets for the photo op.. coz that’s all it was. Sea hag.
Watergate
Wonderful. Unfortunately the eater wasn’t very deep.
Floating voters scupper Burton!
Joan’s Rivers!
At Swim Two Birds
This.
The moan in Joan stays mainly on the Rhone
Rhône
Moselle of the time
Breast-Stroke Politics!
As she’s a landlord and Minister for Social Deception… perhaps we can now call her Burton on Rent?
Is she a landlord as well yeah?
Dunkin’ Joan-Ass
Vote Labour For Stability
She’s been visiting flooded voters for weeks privately apparently.
The only true austerity in this country is the paucity of wit as evidenced on here. So there. Happy new year.
Joan’s wet for fresh voters.
Joan River is the obvious one but it was done about 10,000 times on facebook before this was posted:(
Dangerous parasites identified in flood water.
Boil notice to follow.
Ha- my favourite so far!
@Labour Up Sh!t Creek. That’s 7% for you. Is Caulfield going to be arrested by the Gardai? Surprised she needed a canoe and didn’t walk…
Was handler dick Ed Brophy there or was he holding Burton’s expensive phones for her in case they got wet?
This was a Labour Party photo opportunity that did not float, it flopped
in Irish Water, and it will eventually swamp them, who dreamt up towing
a canoue in about 4 inches of water, and the occupants are in charge of the
aptly named Depts of Social Protection….and Rural Matters
Has it ever dawned on those in charge of the Office of Public Works and the
ESB that if they don’t deepen and maintain rivers and properly manage headroom
at ESB Hydro Dams to accomodate excess rain fall it will go on.
Kenny saw the Shannon yesterday, has he asked himself what contribution
does 80 foot dam on the Shannon couple miles from Limerick make to water
levels right up to Leitrim, surely it has hit Simon Harris by now or has it.
Our political leaders would do well to treat water as a dangerous medium, as
it will swamp them.
Joke on the water!
Burton’s Burton.
Does no one else know the ‘went for a burton’ expression?
Yes, but those of who do are closer to the grave than the cradle.
Stupid B1tches
Seriously
They must be the laziest and most useless wimin in Ireland
Frank is the 6th storm in as many weeks, and these two dopes are looking like tis the first they heard if it.
Wellies?
Rain Gear?
Gators?
FFS. Yere hardly on a budget ladies.
An’ there ye are, arses in a Canadian like yere on holidays.
Buoyancy Aids are just for the ordinary people huh Minister?
The sooner you and yours are û(ked out the better
for all of us.
An’ what I wouldn’t have given to see rats swimming alongside ye
Ship of Fools
Here’s to swimmin’ with photo-op women.
(I don’t like her, but geez, though – serious situation, silly but harmless set-up, brief splash BOOM all front pages and the castigation – who’d be a politician?)
Pity the water wasn’t 10m deep.
Love that bitch Joan quivers
For a nobleman, you’re devoid of class.
I beg to duff her
Tán-uisce
It’s good to see Joan can find the funny side.She does realise the absolute misery that people are actually going through.What a complete CxxxxxxUxxxxxNxxxxxxxT.
That’s a foul comment. Your off-the-shelf radicalism barely conceals your misogyny.
48 comments and no one’s blamed Sinn Fein yet? No Labour supporters here, obviously.
I blame you
Nah, putting people in the ground rather than underwater is more in the PIRA/SF wheelhouse.
Jo na bh’earc
Let them eat Cornettos.
The Cotswolds have Bourton On The Water – delightful village.
We have Burton In The Water – ?