I know she took the job but sometimes it is hard not to feel for Theresa May.
On her right are the Brexit wildlife threatening all sorts and on her left are the reds sharpening their spears in the long grass. She has The Ulster Taliban with a gun to her head, an international treat to navigate around, the Russians popping in for a cup of tea and now, the bloody Scots are kicking off again.
millie st murderlark
It really feels like there should be a cartoon to go with that.
Also, I agree. I wouldn’t wish Teresa May’s job on anyone. As you say yourself, she wanted it. I doubt she understood even for a moment precisely how hard the job would be. I reckon she thought she had it sussed. Boy was she wrong. Gone are the jazzy shoes, wha? She’ll have earned her retirement at the end of this, whether you agree with Brexit or not.
Rob_G
I don’t feel sorry for her in the slightest – she is on the record as being against Brexit, until it became clear that if she swallowed her principles and ignored what was best for the country, she could become PM.
Cynical and spineless.
millie st murderlark
I think I’d feel sorry for anyone who had to try handle that utter mess. I mean, talk about a three year migraine.
jusayinlike
“I know she took the job, but it’s hard not to feel for her”
Tell that to the hundreds of survivors of institutional paedophilia railroaded by her not once, but three times. She’s a vile stooge..
Please
gibberish
jusayinlike
Please NoOneCares..
Increasing Displacement
This 5 euro to everyone budget is such bullpen
Put it towards a renewable energy Ireland
Stop fupping wasting
Leon Down
Renewable energy?
That only pays subsidy farmers. And increases the cost of household energy. It’s like a subsidy for the rich.
Besides, hydrocarbons exist in superabundance and have the added benefit of releasing extra CO2 into the atmosphere. CO2 is nutrition for plants.
Increasing Displacement
Is the the troll train late again?
Leon Down
There is nothing more wasteful than the scam of ‘renewable energy’.
(Except perhaps the useful idiots who promote the scam.)
Leon Down
Why do you want to replace an energy system that works with an inferior, more expensive system that is proven unreliable? (Ask the Germans or South Australians)
Under your ‘renewable’ scheme how much land area will be sacrificed to replace even one hydrocarbon generator station? If you don’t know this then you haven’t dome your homework properly.
On a cold winter’s night with no wind, how do you ensure continuity of power supply?
The reports of the finite limits of hydrocarbons have been exaggerated for 40 years. We’re nowhere near exploiting the earth’s reserves.
CO2 is wrongly miscast as a pollutant by illogical ‘green’ evangelicals pushing the next-to-useless renewable energy schemes.
CO2 is necessary for all life on earth – more CO2, more food.
That’s the science, baby.
Increasing Displacement
So you’re saying using a source of energy that renews itself/produces little pollution is worse than using a finite one that pollutes…most actual people with some background in science would define you as the idiot
Leon Down
*Doh!
Replied to my own comment: above meant for Increasing Displacement.
Increasing Displacement
Yeah no surprise there.
“Why do you want to replace an energy system that works with an inferior, more expensive system that is proven unreliable?”
Only expensive due to colossal subsidies to carbon.
They are still becoming more and more competitive even at that.
“how much land area will be sacrificed”
The roof of every house is a solar generator if equipped
Geothermal for water heating requires little surface infrastructure
There’s vast tracts of land completely unsuitable for anything else
There’s vast vast seas
Etc etc
“On a cold winter’s night with no wind, how do you ensure continuity of power supply?”
Batteries (which are getting better and better), molten salt, hydrogren etc etc
“We’re nowhere near exploiting the earth’s reserves.”
That’s your end goal is it? *facepalm*
“CO2 is necessary for all life on earth – more CO2, more food.”
This only matters at a given temperaturer range, as temperatures rise this affect goes down. Temperatures are rising.
Photosynthesis? Jesus Christ environmentalists have been begging for people to stop cutting down forests since the seventies and eighties, that damage has been done, you idiot, and is still being done. You didn’t listen to them about the forests and you won’t listen to them about climate change. Go plant a feckin tree, it’ll be the best thing you ever do in your life.
Windmills kill bird and bats and are ugly visually and sonically and almost useless (except for farming subsidies).
Papi
They don’t work at night.
Oh my.
Nigel
Bloody hell, I did you the inadvertent courtesy of assuming you read the links you post and that they support whatever stupid argument you’re trying to make. Evidently you’re even stupider than I thought.:
‘While rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air can be beneficial for plants, it is also the chief culprit of climate change. The gas, which traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere, has been increasing since the industrial age due to the burning of oil, gas, coal and wood for energy and is continuing to reach concentrations not seen in at least 500,000 years. The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.
The beneficial impacts of carbon dioxide on plants may also be limited, said co-author Dr. Philippe Ciais, associate director of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences, Gif-suv-Yvette, France. “Studies have shown that plants acclimatize, or adjust, to rising carbon dioxide concentration and the fertilization effect diminishes over time.”’
If you think windmills are ugly and destructive wait’ll you see an open cast coal mine, or tar flats.
Leon Down
The earth is greening thanks to CO2 (they can’t hide the fact) but they still lie about the impact of CO2 on temperature. They smear truth with lies and weave lies into the truth. It’s the history of propaganda.
Hear’s another fact: Arctic ice still intact.
Climate changes. It’s what climate does.
Leon Down
Tell us, how many predictions of climate catastrophe made by the science-fiction-loving-chicken-licken-alarmist types in the last forty years or so have come true?
Any? Or none?
Nigel
Incoherent. You agree that climate is changing but you also reject scientists saying that climate is changing. You accept findings that atmopsheric CO2 is increasing but reject findings that this is affecting global temperatures. You assert that more CO2 is a good thing and link to a finding that it is increasing plant life but reject findings that suggest that there are limits to the generative effects of an overabundance of CO2. There’s no arguing with someone who will reject scientific evidence purely on conspiratorial grounds.
Leon Down
Not an answer.
Last chance : no diversions, no distractions….
Tell us, how many predictions of climate catastrophe made by the science-fiction-loving-chicken-licken-alarmist types in the last forty years or so have come true?
Any? Or none?
Nigel
No distractions or diversions? You linked to a piece that directly contradicted your argument. Stop begging for more attention.
Leon Down
So that’s no catastrophe in spite of 40 years of science-fiction-propaganda.
According to today’s IPCC report we now have 12 years to avert climate catastrophe. That might not sound long, but it means we are a good deal further away from doom that we were in 2007, when the WWF said we had five years to save the world. The doomsday clock hadn’t moved in 2011 when the International Energy Agency warned us that we had five years to start slashing carbon emissions or lose the chance forever. By last year it had shortened to three years, according to Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. But now it’s right up at 12 years, presumably meaning that we can pretty twiddle our thumbs until 2030 – a whole 18 years after the WWF told us the world would come to an end if we didn’t slash carbon emissions.
Nigel
Wow analysis on the level of ‘if it’s global warming why is it snowing’ level from the Spectator whodathunk.
Leon Down
No Evidence Nigel.
Just sneers.
Climate always changes. There is nothing unusual or unprecidented about climate change.
Telling us man-made atmospheric CO2 is a climate catastrophe waiting to happen is a lie without evidence.
Nigel knows this, yet on he sneers,
Nigel
I don’t have to post evidence. You posted it for me. Then you posted a sneery opinion piece. And accuse me of being sneery.
Peter Dempsey
There’s a curious silence from certain feminists / left wing activists on Emma Mhic Mhathuna’s passing. I am referring to their Facebook and Twitter feeds. No RIP posts, no sympathies, no acknowledgment of what she did for women in a similar position. It’s like she never existed.
Increasing Displacement
They express initial outrage
After that they are done
Ollie Cromwell
Perhaps they think now is a time for the family to grieve in private and not one for making inane virtue-signalling posts on social media.
millie st murderlark
+1 Ollie
Let’s hope that they are indeed doing that. It’s something we should all be doing. I can’t help but feel for her family. It’s such an awful, avoidable loss.
Papi
I can’t like it when charger is human, it throws the poles out of whack.
Say something chargeresque, stat!
Vanessa Foran
For Peter Dempsey
Although I would refuse the title feminist
and I’m not activist enough to match any Left Wing position
Can I say I’ll remember Emma for her Defiance
That Red Dress will be forever remembered
And hopefully it will be the signature for future protests and movements for equality and transparency in Ireland
I’ll grieve for her 5 children and the life she could have had with them
Vicky Phelan will always be the lady whose silence couldn’t be bought
And if it ever comes to pass that confidentially clauses are outlawed in Medical Negligence cases I hope it carries her Name
giggidygoo
Which ones are you referring to? (Who, in other words)
Boules
Who are these lobbyists who hold such power over our Government??
Democracy me hole
Ollie Cromwell
” Ireland would welcome Scots back into EU ”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha – I do enjoy a good joke to start the day.
Papi
Ah, that’s better.
millie st murderlark
Heh.
Bet he had you worried there for a moment.
Papi
Up was down, immigrants were to blame for it all, I loved the queen, it was awful Millie, awful I tells ya!
Randy
Just in time for Arleen to consider alarm bells of intention of Irish government in breaking up UK
Very stupid considering the history of negotiation on these isles
SOQ
Why? No matter what way Brexit goes, NI’s status gets questioned. A water border means NI still remains in UK but a land border which involves any appearances of the past will change the floating section of NI public opinion towards independence from Britain or/and Irish unification.
You get a blank stare from most shinners when you ask what is the difference between ‘brits out’ and ‘unification’ of course. Likewise how to pay for it but…. one step at a time.
The most talked about book this summer in New York and The Hamptons was War on Peace by Ronan Farrow,it chronicles the decline of American diplomacy and the takeover by the military of US foreign policy.In the US The Ireland Funds over the past few years have taken over “Irish” American in a extremely negative way.They host only the most lavish,drink sodden balls and galas attended by ministers and FG TD’s.
Its no coincidence that Naughtons meetings and dinners, took place in New York the AIF (American Ireland Fund) has seved as a live eversion of Linkin for hedge funds, private equity and Finn Gael ministers,TD’s.Its got to the point that in NY the AIF and the Irish Counsel actually share the same offices on Park Avenue,which is just outrageous and wrong on every level.Its also a insult to the many Irish Americans who loathe the Ireland Funds and Lord O’Reilly,Dennis O’Brien.
We already know that the CEO who just resigned in disgrace was making over 600,000 a year.
Here’s Enda Kenny earlier this year taking a lap of honor in Palm Beach,with Ireland’s DC based Ambassador flying down at your expenses for a few pics with a retired TD.
Leo Varkkdar attended and spoke at their ball in DC in March-that’s some ‘get’ for a small Irish charity with revenue in the US of only 13 million in 2016 (latest AC’s).I’m working on putting something more detailed on their murky accounts, its small ball for a charity that claims to have raised 600 million,I’m calling total BS on that vastly inflated number.
The Sunday Times is the only Irish paper to have given the AIF a decent and normal reporters critical ‘eye’ they deserve some credit for that.The other hacks especially at the Irish Times including Simon Carswell,enjoyed all the gala’s, balls and BS way too much to be objective, it was extremely disappointing to many Irish Americans the obsession Simon had with the annual SF dinner in NY and digging up any dirt,its a tame affair at a low end hotel in midtown, while he always attend the AIF galas,lavishing praise and applause on this scandal ridden charity.
Worldwide President & CEO Kieran McLoughlin of this charity,had to have been aware of the fraud and theft back in March,they still have not calculated how much was stolen by whom or when but it could easily be in the millions.This was kept quiet and the party’s continued all year with Enda and Leo.Did Kieran inform Finn Gael and the govt after all its effectively a partnership, while continuing to party ?
The hack at the ST who covers the AIF, tried get a statement out of them since last Tuesday reading McLoughlin’s shocking and sudden resignation, they stonewalled him and finally relented by releasing a statement to get this the Irish Times,that was nasty and only enraged the ST and others,it was a hamfisted attempt at managing this ‘news’.
The normalization of ministers and TD’s from Finn Gael meeting and having dinners in NY with dodgy hedge funds,private equity types and grave dancers can be attributed to the scandal ridden AIF.
-this is going be a big story-
Please
fair Play for reporting on this
Top work
Johnny
Thanks “please” apols for typos,the AIF closely alligned itself with the Clintons,irreparably damaging Irish American relations,with the full support and acquiesce of Finn Gael.The diplomatic damage the AIF has done is incalucable,as the yanks for all their faults would have been a great ally in Brexit.
(Steady there Ollie:)
Instead you’ve no ambassador and a White House that has little or no interest in Ireland-thanks a lot Finn Gael and the AIF.
Vanessa Foran
Indeed Johnny
John Ryan or maybe Bodger has introduced this before
There are another two names more local to us here
But I don’t have the energy for anymore aggro
at the moment anyway
Ta for the tip about Ronan Farrows book, I’ll have to add it to the list
johnny
Thanks Vanessa,had a rather gay exchange last evening in which I was you or you are or were me,or was I you, hard follow as it was all so gay,the limited vocabulary,repetitive use of same words,lack of intelligence from “Liam” was shall we say a ‘tell’….
Keep the head up and yes add the book to the list.
Have you guessed why no comments?
Naughten to see here..
Pascal’s phoney budget giveaway..
Swamp
Cian and the boys haven’t received any instructions from HQ on how to defend Naughten?
If Naughten broke any rules, then he should lose his ministership.
BWA-HA-HA HA-HA. Ireland.
I know. Total ledgebags.
Do you think his actions to date have been within the rules?
Does this qualify cian?
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2018/10/09/breaking-his-own-rules/
I know she took the job but sometimes it is hard not to feel for Theresa May.
On her right are the Brexit wildlife threatening all sorts and on her left are the reds sharpening their spears in the long grass. She has The Ulster Taliban with a gun to her head, an international treat to navigate around, the Russians popping in for a cup of tea and now, the bloody Scots are kicking off again.
It really feels like there should be a cartoon to go with that.
Also, I agree. I wouldn’t wish Teresa May’s job on anyone. As you say yourself, she wanted it. I doubt she understood even for a moment precisely how hard the job would be. I reckon she thought she had it sussed. Boy was she wrong. Gone are the jazzy shoes, wha? She’ll have earned her retirement at the end of this, whether you agree with Brexit or not.
I don’t feel sorry for her in the slightest – she is on the record as being against Brexit, until it became clear that if she swallowed her principles and ignored what was best for the country, she could become PM.
Cynical and spineless.
I think I’d feel sorry for anyone who had to try handle that utter mess. I mean, talk about a three year migraine.
“I know she took the job, but it’s hard not to feel for her”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-child-abuse-inquiry-cover-up-concerns-dame-lowell-goddard-stories-a7369976.html
Tell that to the hundreds of survivors of institutional paedophilia railroaded by her not once, but three times. She’s a vile stooge..
gibberish
Please NoOneCares..
This 5 euro to everyone budget is such bullpen
Put it towards a renewable energy Ireland
Stop fupping wasting
Renewable energy?
That only pays subsidy farmers. And increases the cost of household energy. It’s like a subsidy for the rich.
Besides, hydrocarbons exist in superabundance and have the added benefit of releasing extra CO2 into the atmosphere. CO2 is nutrition for plants.
Is the the troll train late again?
There is nothing more wasteful than the scam of ‘renewable energy’.
(Except perhaps the useful idiots who promote the scam.)
Why do you want to replace an energy system that works with an inferior, more expensive system that is proven unreliable? (Ask the Germans or South Australians)
Under your ‘renewable’ scheme how much land area will be sacrificed to replace even one hydrocarbon generator station? If you don’t know this then you haven’t dome your homework properly.
On a cold winter’s night with no wind, how do you ensure continuity of power supply?
The reports of the finite limits of hydrocarbons have been exaggerated for 40 years. We’re nowhere near exploiting the earth’s reserves.
CO2 is wrongly miscast as a pollutant by illogical ‘green’ evangelicals pushing the next-to-useless renewable energy schemes.
CO2 is necessary for all life on earth – more CO2, more food.
That’s the science, baby.
So you’re saying using a source of energy that renews itself/produces little pollution is worse than using a finite one that pollutes…most actual people with some background in science would define you as the idiot
*Doh!
Replied to my own comment: above meant for Increasing Displacement.
Yeah no surprise there.
“Why do you want to replace an energy system that works with an inferior, more expensive system that is proven unreliable?”
Only expensive due to colossal subsidies to carbon.
They are still becoming more and more competitive even at that.
“how much land area will be sacrificed”
The roof of every house is a solar generator if equipped
Geothermal for water heating requires little surface infrastructure
There’s vast tracts of land completely unsuitable for anything else
There’s vast vast seas
Etc etc
“On a cold winter’s night with no wind, how do you ensure continuity of power supply?”
Batteries (which are getting better and better), molten salt, hydrogren etc etc
“We’re nowhere near exploiting the earth’s reserves.”
That’s your end goal is it? *facepalm*
“CO2 is necessary for all life on earth – more CO2, more food.”
This only matters at a given temperaturer range, as temperatures rise this affect goes down. Temperatures are rising.
“That’s the science, baby.”
Ye flat earth science
So photosynthesis is flat earth science?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-balanced-equation-of-photosynthesis
And the sky is falling…
Photosynthesis? Jesus Christ environmentalists have been begging for people to stop cutting down forests since the seventies and eighties, that damage has been done, you idiot, and is still being done. You didn’t listen to them about the forests and you won’t listen to them about climate change. Go plant a feckin tree, it’ll be the best thing you ever do in your life.
Good News – you’re wrong.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
The Climate always changes.
CO2 levels have nothing to do with it.
The earth has been warming up since the little ice-age.
The heat will ebb and flow according to cycles decided by the sun, the oceans and atmospheric pressure.
Hydrocarbon energy is cheap and plentiful. Yes there are subsidies but there are also taxes.
Q: Where does the energy for an electric car come from?
A: Hydrocarbons. Both in manufacture and in use.
Batteries are not substitute for base load electricity generation.
Only hydrocarbons provide that on contemporary scale.
Solar panels are just creating a future toxic waste problem. And they don’t work at night.
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002631/the-dark-side-of-chinas-solar-boom-
Windmills kill bird and bats and are ugly visually and sonically and almost useless (except for farming subsidies).
They don’t work at night.
Oh my.
Bloody hell, I did you the inadvertent courtesy of assuming you read the links you post and that they support whatever stupid argument you’re trying to make. Evidently you’re even stupider than I thought.:
‘While rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air can be beneficial for plants, it is also the chief culprit of climate change. The gas, which traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere, has been increasing since the industrial age due to the burning of oil, gas, coal and wood for energy and is continuing to reach concentrations not seen in at least 500,000 years. The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.
The beneficial impacts of carbon dioxide on plants may also be limited, said co-author Dr. Philippe Ciais, associate director of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences, Gif-suv-Yvette, France. “Studies have shown that plants acclimatize, or adjust, to rising carbon dioxide concentration and the fertilization effect diminishes over time.”’
If you think windmills are ugly and destructive wait’ll you see an open cast coal mine, or tar flats.
The earth is greening thanks to CO2 (they can’t hide the fact) but they still lie about the impact of CO2 on temperature. They smear truth with lies and weave lies into the truth. It’s the history of propaganda.
Hear’s another fact: Arctic ice still intact.
Climate changes. It’s what climate does.
Tell us, how many predictions of climate catastrophe made by the science-fiction-loving-chicken-licken-alarmist types in the last forty years or so have come true?
Any? Or none?
Incoherent. You agree that climate is changing but you also reject scientists saying that climate is changing. You accept findings that atmopsheric CO2 is increasing but reject findings that this is affecting global temperatures. You assert that more CO2 is a good thing and link to a finding that it is increasing plant life but reject findings that suggest that there are limits to the generative effects of an overabundance of CO2. There’s no arguing with someone who will reject scientific evidence purely on conspiratorial grounds.
Not an answer.
Last chance : no diversions, no distractions….
Tell us, how many predictions of climate catastrophe made by the science-fiction-loving-chicken-licken-alarmist types in the last forty years or so have come true?
Any? Or none?
No distractions or diversions? You linked to a piece that directly contradicted your argument. Stop begging for more attention.
So that’s no catastrophe in spite of 40 years of science-fiction-propaganda.
The hoax is over.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/10/good-news-we-now-have-until-2030-to-save-the-earth/
According to today’s IPCC report we now have 12 years to avert climate catastrophe. That might not sound long, but it means we are a good deal further away from doom that we were in 2007, when the WWF said we had five years to save the world. The doomsday clock hadn’t moved in 2011 when the International Energy Agency warned us that we had five years to start slashing carbon emissions or lose the chance forever. By last year it had shortened to three years, according to Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. But now it’s right up at 12 years, presumably meaning that we can pretty twiddle our thumbs until 2030 – a whole 18 years after the WWF told us the world would come to an end if we didn’t slash carbon emissions.
Wow analysis on the level of ‘if it’s global warming why is it snowing’ level from the Spectator whodathunk.
No Evidence Nigel.
Just sneers.
Climate always changes. There is nothing unusual or unprecidented about climate change.
Telling us man-made atmospheric CO2 is a climate catastrophe waiting to happen is a lie without evidence.
Nigel knows this, yet on he sneers,
I don’t have to post evidence. You posted it for me. Then you posted a sneery opinion piece. And accuse me of being sneery.
There’s a curious silence from certain feminists / left wing activists on Emma Mhic Mhathuna’s passing. I am referring to their Facebook and Twitter feeds. No RIP posts, no sympathies, no acknowledgment of what she did for women in a similar position. It’s like she never existed.
They express initial outrage
After that they are done
Perhaps they think now is a time for the family to grieve in private and not one for making inane virtue-signalling posts on social media.
+1 Ollie
Let’s hope that they are indeed doing that. It’s something we should all be doing. I can’t help but feel for her family. It’s such an awful, avoidable loss.
I can’t like it when charger is human, it throws the poles out of whack.
Say something chargeresque, stat!
For Peter Dempsey
Although I would refuse the title feminist
and I’m not activist enough to match any Left Wing position
Can I say I’ll remember Emma for her Defiance
That Red Dress will be forever remembered
And hopefully it will be the signature for future protests and movements for equality and transparency in Ireland
I’ll grieve for her 5 children and the life she could have had with them
Vicky Phelan will always be the lady whose silence couldn’t be bought
And if it ever comes to pass that confidentially clauses are outlawed in Medical Negligence cases I hope it carries her Name
Which ones are you referring to? (Who, in other words)
Who are these lobbyists who hold such power over our Government??
Democracy me hole
” Ireland would welcome Scots back into EU ”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha – I do enjoy a good joke to start the day.
Ah, that’s better.
Heh.
Bet he had you worried there for a moment.
Up was down, immigrants were to blame for it all, I loved the queen, it was awful Millie, awful I tells ya!
Just in time for Arleen to consider alarm bells of intention of Irish government in breaking up UK
Very stupid considering the history of negotiation on these isles
Why? No matter what way Brexit goes, NI’s status gets questioned. A water border means NI still remains in UK but a land border which involves any appearances of the past will change the floating section of NI public opinion towards independence from Britain or/and Irish unification.
You get a blank stare from most shinners when you ask what is the difference between ‘brits out’ and ‘unification’ of course. Likewise how to pay for it but…. one step at a time.
Unbelievable.
Brexit humour.
On the BBC !!!!
https://twitter.com/StigAbell/status/1049565639877234688
The most talked about book this summer in New York and The Hamptons was War on Peace by Ronan Farrow,it chronicles the decline of American diplomacy and the takeover by the military of US foreign policy.In the US The Ireland Funds over the past few years have taken over “Irish” American in a extremely negative way.They host only the most lavish,drink sodden balls and galas attended by ministers and FG TD’s.
Its no coincidence that Naughtons meetings and dinners, took place in New York the AIF (American Ireland Fund) has seved as a live eversion of Linkin for hedge funds, private equity and Finn Gael ministers,TD’s.Its got to the point that in NY the AIF and the Irish Counsel actually share the same offices on Park Avenue,which is just outrageous and wrong on every level.Its also a insult to the many Irish Americans who loathe the Ireland Funds and Lord O’Reilly,Dennis O’Brien.
We already know that the CEO who just resigned in disgrace was making over 600,000 a year.
Here’s Enda Kenny earlier this year taking a lap of honor in Palm Beach,with Ireland’s DC based Ambassador flying down at your expenses for a few pics with a retired TD.
https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/lifestyles/ireland-funds-annual-dinner-dance-honors-former-irish-prime-minister/8e0nJ4FA8ZkdeuUMBxPUVO/
Leo Varkkdar attended and spoke at their ball in DC in March-that’s some ‘get’ for a small Irish charity with revenue in the US of only 13 million in 2016 (latest AC’s).I’m working on putting something more detailed on their murky accounts, its small ball for a charity that claims to have raised 600 million,I’m calling total BS on that vastly inflated number.
The Sunday Times is the only Irish paper to have given the AIF a decent and normal reporters critical ‘eye’ they deserve some credit for that.The other hacks especially at the Irish Times including Simon Carswell,enjoyed all the gala’s, balls and BS way too much to be objective, it was extremely disappointing to many Irish Americans the obsession Simon had with the annual SF dinner in NY and digging up any dirt,its a tame affair at a low end hotel in midtown, while he always attend the AIF galas,lavishing praise and applause on this scandal ridden charity.
Worldwide President & CEO Kieran McLoughlin of this charity,had to have been aware of the fraud and theft back in March,they still have not calculated how much was stolen by whom or when but it could easily be in the millions.This was kept quiet and the party’s continued all year with Enda and Leo.Did Kieran inform Finn Gael and the govt after all its effectively a partnership, while continuing to party ?
The hack at the ST who covers the AIF, tried get a statement out of them since last Tuesday reading McLoughlin’s shocking and sudden resignation, they stonewalled him and finally relented by releasing a statement to get this the Irish Times,that was nasty and only enraged the ST and others,it was a hamfisted attempt at managing this ‘news’.
The normalization of ministers and TD’s from Finn Gael meeting and having dinners in NY with dodgy hedge funds,private equity types and grave dancers can be attributed to the scandal ridden AIF.
-this is going be a big story-
fair Play for reporting on this
Top work
Thanks “please” apols for typos,the AIF closely alligned itself with the Clintons,irreparably damaging Irish American relations,with the full support and acquiesce of Finn Gael.The diplomatic damage the AIF has done is incalucable,as the yanks for all their faults would have been a great ally in Brexit.
(Steady there Ollie:)
Instead you’ve no ambassador and a White House that has little or no interest in Ireland-thanks a lot Finn Gael and the AIF.
Indeed Johnny
John Ryan or maybe Bodger has introduced this before
There are another two names more local to us here
But I don’t have the energy for anymore aggro
at the moment anyway
Ta for the tip about Ronan Farrows book, I’ll have to add it to the list
Thanks Vanessa,had a rather gay exchange last evening in which I was you or you are or were me,or was I you, hard follow as it was all so gay,the limited vocabulary,repetitive use of same words,lack of intelligence from “Liam” was shall we say a ‘tell’….
Keep the head up and yes add the book to the list.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/soliloquy