Paschal Donohue (centre) with, from left: Frances Fitzgerald, Michael Noonan, Simon Coveney and Leo Varadkar at the launch of Fine Gael’s General Election 2016 campaign.
The hard right cannot hold.
To wit:
‘Everything changes and nothing remains still . . . you cannot step twice into the same stream.”
So wrote philosopher Heraclitus nearly 2,500 years ago when he argued that ever-present change is the very essence and nature of the universe…
…it is more important than ever that the centre of Irish politics holds, a “holding centre” that offers voters choices without creating the anxiety and uncertainty that have been experienced elsewhere in recent months.
The recent activity in the Dáil on water may not have been pretty, but it showed that the centre can hold and compromise can work. How often that feat can be repeated is open to question, however.
This approach may have worked for water, which is a relatively small amount of exchequer funding. It is unlikely to work for bigger challenges such as public pay policy or investing in new infrastructure.
Historically, Ireland has been good at demonstrating that while governments changed and policies changed with them, the fluctuations in those policies were within a certain range.
Ironically, the UK was good at this too. As Britain goes its own way, we must be ready for the challenges we face and be a point of certainty with volatility enveloping others.
Heraclitus died, it is said, when he was devoured by dogs. It does not have to be that way. As we face the future, we can stand ready by remaining steady.
Paschal Donohue, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
Who writes this crap?
Oh yeah.
Certainty and order matter more than ever (Paschal Donohue, Irish Times)
This is indistinguishable from a Tony Groves piece.
Unnecessarily harsh. Tony at least makes sense.
More trolling from rotide. I seriously don’t understand how you’re not banned yet. You’re awful.
In fairness, that was quite funny
Chapeau!
Like your avatar Tony.
Thanks. That’s really my Walking Rock.
Burnnnn!
What’s he taking?
Nothing ‘held’… there was no crisis…they just put on a bit of oul theater based around a faux rift between the 2.
Paschal Donohue, Minister for public expenditure ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶r̶e̶f̶o̶r̶m̶
So there you have it, Paschal Donohue, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Believes that the status quo in fact equals universal flux. King Canute has spoken. Watch him drown
The thing that annoys me the most are the haass quotes – I’m gonna quote from a serious book that I read recently to show how smart I am”…..like something from a fresher
And The quotes are about insightful as a chomp bar
Don’t dis chomp bars
or Curleywurleys
c’mere does anyone remember yer man that used to have a shop on Aungier St where he sold all the reject “broken bits” from the Cadbury and Rountree and other factories?
…like perfectly formed kitkats that were pure solid chocolate and overdone crunchie pieces that tasted waay better than the normal shop ones??
yum
No, but it sounds amazing. I LOVE cinder toffee.
do you really?
we’d *never* have guessed
So whats the “welfare cheats cheat us all” got to do with this post.
Translation ‘Keep voting FF and FG, everyone.’ That post about imaginary democracy was only *yesterday*.
FG minister encourages people to vote for FG.
OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE
You offer nothing other than sneering. You are by far the worst troll on the site.
– says the sneeriest sneerer in all of Sneerdom
Why don’t you call someone stupid again and then lecture someone else on how to have a civilised discussion a day later? :D
I’ll leave it up to you to call every person that disagrees with you a troll ;)
(no regrets after calling you ‘stupid’, btw).
I’ve only referred to rotide as a troll. Do you have to make things up to have a pop at me? :D Poor Rob.
So you replied directly to rob but were talking to me?
Should i assume all of the drivel you vomit out is directed at me? or just the replies to comments 3 rows under mine?
Deary me, rotide. Read the thread again. You’re getting emotional. Again.
That’s a bit rich coming from you.
Bit rich coming from any of us. We’re all prone to being Sneery McSneeryfaces here at Broadsneer. But ’tis all in fun.
“Bit rich coming from any of us.”
You’re learnding.
If I ate a bowl of alphabetti spaghetti and puked onto a roll of wallpaper the end result would make more sense than this garbage
that could spell disaster.
That’s it, keep on misunderstanding what the water protests are really about. A general lack of trust and faith in pretty much all mainstream parties after decades of incompetence and outright corruption. I don’t know how you’re going to fix that one Pascal.
look at that gatch on Varadkar
with the arm ready to push Pathcal out’ve the way and put himself in-front of the mic
and Noonan – wondering “who da puck are they shyte talking with”
“The hard right cannot hold” ,
who?
This drivel was written by Donoghue? He believes that mention of Ancient Greeks lends weight, or cachet, to this? He is mistaken.
Kennys writers being interviewed for employment by potential, ahem, leaders must have written that. I’m sure a bit of searching might find where it was plagiarised from.
Did he just use a greek word with the word ‘clit’ in it?
One thing I notice is that when Clampers fellow is not in doing the day shift the Moyestchap takes over and insults everyone instead, ruining all the threads
You may well be onto something there. Ditto rotide/lord snowflakee yada yada yada.
All paid broadsheet shills generating “debate”