Transport Minister Shane Ross and Amanda Brunker at a charity event at the weekend; Mr Ross at Store Street Garda Station yesterday
Further to the ongoing Bus Éireann strikes…
Minister for Transport Shane Ross being photographed wearing a feather boa with Amanda Brunker at a charity event last weekend…
And Mr Ross’s participation in the launch of roadside drug testing in Store Street Garda Station yesterday…
Ellen Coyne, in The Times Ireland edition, writes:
“The feather boa was actually put on me by someone for a few seconds, and somebody took the photograph,” Mr Ross said, even attempting to explain the snap, taken at a local sports club lip sync fundraiser, as part of his ministerial brief.
“I am also the minister for sport. I have to support local clubs and I’m going to continue to do that.”
Grand so. And would Mr Ross be speaking with the striking bus drivers waiting outside the garda station, as he promised?
“I may or may not speak to them on the way out,” he said.
Reader, he did not.
The drivers, staging a 40-minute stakeout, guarded both entrances to the garda station eagerly hoping to speak to the minister. Tempers were running so high, that at one point the gardaí were accused of harbouring Mr Ross inside.
“Jaysus,” a bemused detective sergeant said. “He’s not tip-toeing around inside there that I can see, anyway.”
And so it emerged that Mr Ross was after pulling off another one of his notorious disappearing acts. Without notice, the minister had been smuggled out of the car park of Store Street garda station in an SUV with tinted windows, leaving the furious union members and one (ahem) unhappy colour writer waiting outside in the rain.
So what exactly is the point of this post. Ross didn’t talk to some people on strike, so what.
I can’t smoke fat hash in the evenings then get up sober the next day and drive to work. That’s what !
So you break the law and you want to complain about not being able to break the law anymore. Also the law is a good thing, I’ve nothing against people smoking weed, people should not be high and driving.
I won’t be high the next morning. I can still be convicted though. I would never drive stoned, just as I would never drive drunk.
But the problem is not everyone will be a sensible.
True. It seems a pity. As I’ve mentioned before, one of my family has suffered years of chronic pain, horrible and debilitating pain, which left them unable to work or live the life they once had, and thanks to cannabis they are able to manage a normal lifestyle. This person could be arrested for something they do in the privacy of their own home, which actually enables them to be an active member of society, to contribute, where before they could not.
I understand the need for it, certainly, but the fact that traces of cannabis stay in the system for so long is an issue. How could they possibly enforce something like that?
This is a government that thought it would be a good idea to set up a ‘citizens assembly’ because they don’t regard themselves as the citizens assembly. They don’t think they work for us; the people. We are peasants to them. We are a nuisance to them that gets in the way of them living the high life.
outsourcing solves everything dontcha know??
“We are peasants to them” – They’re not wrong in your case
He used to be dissin’ but he ain’t all that, nuh-uh, where’s all the answers now rozzers?
Lord Ross of Merrion.
Bahaha, fair play to him managing to bamboozle them so easily, hilarious that get annoyed at him and accuse him of cheap stunts while at the same time continually doing cheap stunts of their own by ambushing him like this and last week.
Pathetic stuff from the drivers and the unions
Agreed. Even if he wasn’t attempting to troll them with this (I’m pretty sure he was in fairness) it would still be a master-stroke in image management. He’s doing a great job in my opinion with these bastards holding the country to ransom.
“Bahaha”
As we can see here, hatred and contempt for your fellow man is what drives the right wing mind.
Hardly. Most people are neither right nor left these days. Me – I’m just vehemently anti reactionary bullshit
I expect the government are happy to let an independent take the brunt of the blame for clowning while the strike drags on. I haven’t really been following the discussions here – are the anti-water charge people concerned about how FG might respond if the company goes under? With, say, steps towards privatisation?
Wait for a file to be sent to the DPP and the strikers to be charged with false imprisonment.
+1
Why is the feather boa thing even a story?
Ticklish subject.
To rile up all the uppity peasants obviously. You’d never fall for such transparent emotional manipulation though, because you’re smart and level headed and so much better than all these overgrown children.
You seem to have fallen for it
It’s coz of the Brunker. We all know it is.
It gets up people’s noses.
Im glad he isn’t speaking to the unions – let them sort it out with management like real people. Finally someone looking out for the private sector taxpayer – an abused species in this country. And he is entitled to be frivolous with women over the weekend if he wants just like everyone else is.
Yes, taking away a bus service from the taxpayer is really looking out for them. Silly right wing nonsense.
Yes it was obviously Minister Ross who was running the company into the ground over all those years…
It’s minister Ross’s government, yes. They’re the ones putting less and less money into a public service but well done for mindlessly regurgitating government propaganda.
You spew some amount of drivel on this site.
Another serf resorting to personal attacks to protect the integrity of government propaganda. Disgusting.
I rest my case.
Lol! Moths to a flame.
Brain dead troll
It’s drivers with union backing that have taken the service away, but don’t let that fact get in the way.
Nope, the fact is the government are taking it away but don’t let reality get in the way of your need to spread government propaganda. Serf.
Wrong again. Just the serfs spreading propaganda are serfs who spread government propaganda. You are spreading government propaganda like a good obedient little serf because you are a serf.
That was deleted quick.
Serfs, Blah, nonsense… Moyestwithexcrement still spouting your daily myopic idiot drivel.
Whatever you say, little government propaganda spreading serf.
Well said
This is ridiculous at this stage. Trolling the a minister cause he has not taken out his checkbook to support a failing service on strike for 20 days cause they cant maintain the €50+k they are on.
If you don’t get what you demand ….. cause as many problems as you can.
You’re the guy who said ‘sure we’ve all thrown something at someone in anger’ during a conversation about an alleged incident of domestic violence. Right wingers are driven by hatred and contempt for anyone outside their immediate family.
I said what now? No. That was not me, but do please spend half your day proving your ranting lies right.
In relation to your second sentence, do you not see the irony in it? In that you have just accused me of supporting domestic violence because I think tax should not pick up failing surface costs?
You clear have some anger management issues.
Nah, unless there are 3 ‘Owens’ you’re the guy who responded to a story about an actor throwing his mobile at his girlfriend by saying to me that everyone has thrown something at someone when angry. That hatred and anger you have for people is the same impotent rage that drives your opinion about bus drivers. All right wingers are self hating, emotionally disturbed weirdos.
Jaysus, you’re some tinfoil hat wearing clown.
Yeah, but at least I’m not an angry, violent misanthropic lunatic like yourself.
It takes one to know one
+ Stick to your union guns, even if it means putting the company out of business.
I use BE a lot and the minister for transport’s seeming apathy towards to the strike has been a source of frustration to be honest. Coincidentally the threat of Dublin Bus striking in solidarity seems to have sped up the process.