Jaykers.
A wind-cheating, water balloon absorbent, tricolour-clad taoiseach Enda Kenny arriving at government buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin this morning.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
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He looks like a bleeding leprechaun!
Leave it out, apparently morale for leprechauns is at an all time low at present.
The state of the nation
Topaz jacket would have been appropriate.
Ah now,be a sad state of affairs if we had the Taoiseach having to work part time in a petrol station.
Nothing wrong with working in a petrol station, but he has a country to run like.
I think Kevin may have been alluding to DOB’s involvement with Topaz.
I think you missed the subtle joke.
It’s a German brand, perhaps he got it from Merkel….
my house in the 80’s….
when my mam was alive and well she was a Labourite through and through….as a kid I remember how she would wax on about some of the great things that Labour stood for & how they stood up for regular workers & ordinary people & she would go on & on about Corish & some other fella called Doctor Noël Browne…she railed against the likes of Garret Fitzgerald & CJ Haughey & during telly debates would shout at box in the corner with me constantly gently reminding her that they couldn’t hear her…
in my 20’s curiosity got the better of me & I looked into these people my mam would go on about & concluded that politics was interesting for sure but wasn’t for me, it wasn’t that I didn’t care but maybe I was too selfish worrying about my own situations at the time like getting a job & a girlfriend & being able to buy myself a new pair of docs & carrying out the odd act of kindness…but the one thing that sticks with me to this day is the power and sway that these characters had, I guess what you might call LEADERSHIP qualities…like or loath them the likes of Haughey, Fitzgerald, Corish & Dr.Noël Browne were leaders, idealists, maybe a little mad & certainly one of them utterly corrupt….BUT they all had one thing that’s missing today, an ability to lead in different ways
this seems to have vanished, maybe its just because we are now assimilated into the EU project & we’re not supposed to have leaders anymore just a line manager
where’s the fight? where’s the guile & cunning? we seem to be dangling at the end of a bail out string that we (& the many generations to come) didn’t sign for as people, didn’t get a chance to decide upon
so I have a major problem with politics in Ireland, apart from the Indos & the odd backbencher who give a shit about things other than share prices & their “career” like real people & real things that matter….it’s mostly bollox, a structure of line managers….Haughey was a character, to be hated but he was a LEADER & right now I’d rather have him in all his glory at the controls than a jumped up secondary school glove puppet gimp like Kenny. Burton just makes me very very sad….on that one I know my mam is turning in her grave…who’d have thought the Labour Party would have Maggie MKII at the helm, doesn’t that just say it all? how fupped up is that??
I’d rather have someone who loves his country enough and is mad & bad enough to go to Europe & deal hard & fight & bring the Euro to it’s knees if necessary to get that deal…I’m happy enough to admit I need a leader….I want a leader I can follow whatever the consequence to me, certainly not an average ex-school teacher middle-manager & his team of communications consultants….watch them today manipulate the newspapers, tv & radio criminalising the right to protest
Kenny’s Ireland seems to be wandering around, punch drunk with no ideas about where it is or what it wants & lot of people seem to have caught his malaise. But I know what I want. I love my children & I don’t want your world for them Kenny & I’m willing to fight for that unlike you. I’ll carry on my mam’s tradition of shouting at the telly & teaching my kids about what’s right & what’s wrong
I’m not following your charade Kenny & I’m not paying a penny more
Bad as Kenny might be, he’s not bad enough to want Haughey back in power. One lecture on living within our means from a guy wearing shirts that cost a month’s pay is enough for one lifetime thanks.
And he was a tyrant.
He was brutal and corrupt.
I sometimes wonder if people pay any attention to history at all.
And we lost a whole bloody decade to his policies
Enda says snide things to people who criticise him on the street.
Haughey told them to “go f**k themselves”.
Seriously, nothing Haughey gave us is anything we need or want.
He gave the politicians full pension from the age of 50. Ivan Yates probably has a shrine to Haughey in his home.
“I want a leader I can follow whatever the consequence to me.”
So you just want the childlike comfort of being told what to do? No btoher, I’ll tell you what to do. Grow the fk up.
yeah that’s what I want, Enda Kenny isn’t a leader, the man isn’t fit to tie even my own shoelaces never mind yours so why t’fck would I follow him & his policies?
we all have our views & are entitled to them, I’ll practice that on the 10th & the next GE
I never suggested you follow Enda. I didn’t mention any one specific in my post. I highlighted your cry for an adult to tell you what to do and told you to become that adult.
Haha!
I wouldn’t call Haughey an Idealist, unless your ideals are fleece the country and destroy the lives of those who defy you. So no, personally rather have Kenny than Haughey. Wandering around punch drunk is better than driven into the ground by an unscrupulous, corrupt wannabe dictator like Haughey.
that’s not what I wrote, please re-read
Sorry, I misinterpreted what you wrote, in my defence “like or loath them the likes of Haughey, Fitzgerald, Corish & Dr.Noël Browne were leaders, idealists, maybe a little mad & certainly one of them utterly corrupt” reads a lot like you were saying they were all idealists. I’d still rather have Kenny than Haughey, and now I’m worried people are starting to get nostalgic for him. He was a horrible human being and probably a sociopath.
Understand your frustrations martco but I for one would prefer to be led by Brussels. From what I’ve seen in this country over the last few decades is abuse of power, corruption, protection of criminals, incompetence, greasy-till profiteering, cute hoorism and gombeenism.
*wonders how the EU translators would deal with those last few words*
The EU is going the way of the USA with the power of lobbyists. We need to curtail that and introduce on EU level an absolute transparency on all lobbying (and everything that goes with it) before I agree to full rule from Brussels.
Did he not drive in for fear of another blockade?
He’s been walking to work for years now. Broadsheet has done countless posts of him meeting people on the way to work.
Out of shot: plastic bag with Brennan’s Bread wrapper sandwiches and Kia Ora in a Ballygowan bottle.
He look’s offended above, is that because so many people are taking the piss by offering him their Joan-phones?
so, do my subjects not swallow the independent newspapers spin anymore? well then I’ll make them believe.
joan Burton has a state car and driver yet she claims €800 a month in mileage? why?
Expensive phones.
Because she has no morals?
Man wears coat?
He’s looking more like Bertie every day :)