‘If There’s Money To Be Lost, So Be It’

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This morning.

In the Seanad.

Fine Gael Senator Joe O’Reilly outlines why he’s against the opening of licensed premises on Good Friday.

Via Conor McMorrow

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78 thoughts on “‘If There’s Money To Be Lost, So Be It’

  1. catherine ryan

    The government do have a track record in losing/wasting money. ‘Its a distinctly irish thing and it’s been that way for a long time’.

  2. Brother Barnabas

    A primary school teacher who becomes a Fine Gael Senator can only understand the objection to the ban on alcohol sales on Good Friday in commercial terms. Doesn’t see anything else wrong with it.

    Jebus fupping wept.

    My advice to anyone under the age of 30 would be ‘just go – get out of this kip while you still can; it won’t ever change’

    1. Sheik Yahbouti

      Brother. I am well stricken in years. If I were younger, I could not resist your advice.

    2. Rugbyfan

      I am always amazed by the amount of teachers who end up in the houses of power. What fupping business acumen can they bring. In sixth class in primary school the majority of the year is spent getting ready for confirmation instead of secondary school. These guys are beholden to the church!

      1. Percival

        Well running a country is about more than just adding up a few sums and keeping businesses happy. It needs input from from every human aspect. Otherwise it becomes divisive and confrontational. Like it is since 2008.

      2. curmudegon

        I’m less amazed than depressed by the fact that this won’t change because schools are required to keep their position open until they return. Hence the absolute dearth of private sector representation in public office, it’s doctors and lawyers and not much else.

  3. Sheik Yahbouti

    Excellent point, Catherine. I would urge all those who voted to retain this “Home for the Bewildered” (and the rejected), to have a good, long talk with themselves.

    1. Daisy Chainsaw

      But Sheik, they gave Enda a good kick in the bottom by keeping this €10million a year talking shop full of failures and wannabes when he wanted rid of it!

      Somehow, having this gonk in a job is a victory!

          1. Brother Barnabas

            Yes, I am. Have just accepted it and my lot. They let me out momentarily a few weeks ago. Put me right back in at first mention of my winky-woo.

        1. Spaghetti Hoop

          Maybe Daisy said something far far worse and it was replaced euphemistically with ‘gonk’. That poo happened a lot round here.

      1. Brother Barnabas

        “Joe started his career as a primary school teacher and his favourite class to teach was 5th class”

        Certainly sounds like the sort of fellow we should be paying €97,000 a year to me

    1. Murtles

      “His favourite film is Slumdog Millionaire”.
      Translation : Joe can only get so many laughs out of the Irish peasants around him from his view on the Seanad gravy train therefore he has to watch Slumdog Millionaire to see the really poorest of the poor and that cheers him up no end as he looks forward to his big pension.

  4. VinLieger

    Tradition for tradition sake is not a valid argument for anything.
    It was also a religious tradition to bury babies in a hole without telling anyone, lets get back to doing that then shall we?

    Unelected muppet

  5. rotide

    He says all that pretending that queues for Off Licences on holy thursday don’t look like 80’s russian bread queues.

    Temperance me hole.

    It’s a good thing that pretty much anything a senator says can be safely ignored.

    1. MoyestWithExcitement

      Yeah nothing but rational people in the Dail. Nobody there saying drink driving is grand or that God controls the weather so no need to take care of the environment.

  6. Sheik Yahbouti

    PS “a review after five years”! When the term is finished and the maximum pension has been obtained. Exactly who do these venal apes think they are fooling?

  7. Nutmeg

    It’s backwards and so is businesses closing for the day as a sneaky Bank Holiday.

    Time to take the consequences and go to work on Just Another Friday.

    1. The Old Boy

      Oddly, in the UK it’s a bona fide Bank Holiday, unlike the unofficial “ah sure we all take the day off” status it has in Ireland.

  8. Increasing Displacement

    Lad can barely speak
    Part of our national identity?

    We have nothing in common Joe

    Now **** off

  9. Daisy Chainsaw

    Part of our catlick huritage, doh.

    Things have never been the same since they banned Faith of our Faawders at the matches.

  10. brownsyndrome

    Can ye not go one day without the drink? can we randomly stop selling some other consumable on a day a year.
    Then people to just stock up the day before, or do without it for one day in the year, I mean can ye not go one day without _____________

    We should call these mammy politics, perpetuating unscientific unfounded nonsense where any talk opposing is instantly shot down

    1. ahjayzis

      The payple: Can we get a functioning health service / police force / public transport system?

      Mammy McState: We’ll see.

      1. Ratatattat

        Iron clad logic there from Ireland’s foremost (former) pigeon on the gate ( of Westminister )

  11. bleeschmn

    As a fan of secularism, I still like the fact that people who work in pubs get the day off.
    In Northern Ireland, and the rest of the UK, pubs open Christmas day as well, and I think that’s a bit flippin mean. Want to hang out with your family on Christmas Day? You’re fired.

    Good Friday isn’t exactly Christmas, not unless you really like fish, but days off are a nice thing.

    1. Daisy Chainsaw

      As the daughter of a barman, I’d prefer if the pubs were shut Easter Sunday. Good Friday is just another shopping day now so open the pubs, but shut everything Easter Sunday, like Christmas Day, to give bar staff a full day off with their families.

      1. This monkey's gone to heaven

        Daughter of a barman eh? Almost as good a catch as if you had road frontage

          1. This monkey's gone to heaven

            A coupla good bull suck calves and half dozen hoggets thrown in as a luck penny

      2. Spaghetti Hoop

        That’s all very noble, but there is always going to be someone who doesn’t give a hoot about christian holidays, who wants to work and earn the double-time. Sundays in town used to be so eerie when everything was closed; it seemed unfair to force a religious lifestyle on people.

        1. Daisy Chainsaw

          You don’t get double time on a Sunday anymore. Because food and drink is a 7 day a week business, you just get normal wages, no premium.

          1. Spaghetti Hoop

            Ah, I see, thanks.
            Even still, it’s unfair for an employer to push religious holidays onto their staff.

      3. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

        It’s the one day we could give the pub a good clean and paint it inside.
        The bar business is a tough one. I’m glad my parents have retired and don’t work in it anymore.

        1. The Old Boy

          It’s not particularly relevant to the law but it’s a good point – most pubs are open about twelve hours a day every day save for two days a year, one being Christmas. It must be tough keeping them in proper order.

      4. Peter Dempsey

        I agree with Daisy. Loads of places are closed anyway on Easter Sunday. It’s on a par with New Year’s Day in terms of Day That Most People Are Off

    2. Toe Up

      People who work in pubs have holiday entitlement too you know, not just Christmas day. If they want to they could ask for it as a day’s leave.

      1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

        Not so for a lot of bar owners in the country. They own it, they run it.

  12. This monkey's gone to heaven

    Daughter of a barman eh? Almost as good a catch as if you had road frontage

    1. Daisy Chainsaw

      How much of a dowry do you expect I’ll fetch? Do you want it in bananas and peanuts?

      1. This monkey's gone to heaven

        I’m expecting a least a dozen pedigree Friesians (good milkers) or a bakers dozen of premium ewes

  13. Toni The Exotic Dancer

    It’s a good thing we decided to keep the Seanad. These guys are worth every penny

      1. ciaran

        enda wanted it gone so people voted for it to stay – genius reverse psychology from the great man.

  14. Doug

    If your god doesn’t allow you to go boozin on good Friday then don’t go boozin’ on good Friday. Growing up in suburban Ireland I was of the opinion that god is a dj at a gaf party because it was always the best madouvehhhh gaf party night of the year

    1. Kieran Nice Young Chap

      “God is a DJ
      Life is a dance floor
      Love is the rhythm
      You are the music”

      or, if you’re into the whole brevity thing;

      “This is my Church”

  15. Kieran Nice Young Chap

    Was listening to The Last Word yesterday and hearing Healy-Rae defending the Dail prayer without an ounce of logic or sense because “Ireland is a catholic country” would make your ears bleed.

    Although the guy from Atheist Ireland wasn’t very good at getting his points across. He was all over the place and awkwardly brought his dead wife into it.

    1. Sheik Yahbouti

      Weird, isn’t it? I’m an atheist myself. Can’t understand for the life of me, however, having abandoned organized religion why anyone would want to band together into an ‘organized non-religion’. As the great Groucho Marx said, “I don’t want to join any Club who will accept me as a member”. Perhaps it’s the old ‘pressure group’ thing – the God botherers are really fond of those.

      1. This monkey's gone to heaven

        All the better for you guys to bore us to death with. A bit like the old vegan joke. How do you know a vegan when you meet one? Don’t worry -they’ll tell you.

      2. Spaghetti Hoop

        Atheist Ireland does sound like an organized religion.
        I don’t play sports – I must set up a team of non-sports players and meet up every Saturday morning.

      3. Kieran Nice Young Chap

        Well I view it as a lobby group much like any other – in this case dealing with getting religion out of people’s lives and trying to separate church and state. For all religions and none.

        Name change might be in order actually.

  16. Ben Redmond

    “If there is money to be lost, so be it.” Guinness Book of Records or Oxford Dictionary of Quotations?

  17. Kid Creole Jensen

    Have you ever noticed with these parliamentary videos, the dail or the seanad, is usually half empty. I have a fb friend who is a td and everytime she posts a video of her latest Dail speech. the house is usually row and row of empty seats. I havent the heart to slag her about it. it would seem churlish. the new politics you know.

  18. Gabby

    Most backbencher speeches are made to empty chambers. The real, untelevised Dail debates, take place in major party committee rooms. It is in those committee rooms that TDs are told whether to vote Ta or Nil on crucial Bills.

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