Tag Archives: Enda Kenny

In June, Enda Kenny told the Dáil there was “no file” in his department relating to the 2008 decision to guarantee the banks to the tune of €440bn.

But a Freedom of Information request submitted by Fianna Fáil shows there are at least 17 files in Mr Kenny’s department about the bank guarantee dated Sept 30, 2008.

The files in the Department of Taoiseach are listed as notes on the decision sought in the meeting, the government decision of the meeting, minutes of the government meeting, notes for the then taoiseach’s use, and memos for government and other documents.

Kenny ‘Misled’ Dáil On Bank Guarantee Files (Juno McEnroe, Irish Examiner)

Previously: Lenin’s Visit To ireland

Rewriting History

Thanks Lars Biscuit

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

If you’re lying to plain speaking folk,
And you’re caught out while pulling a stroke,
You’ll be taught by some cynic,
In a spin doctor’s clinic,
To smile, and announce you “misspoke.”

John Moynes

Unless you think you can do better?

Oh yes, it’s a  Thursday ‘Rick OFF.

Free Darklight Film Festival pass to the best Limerick on the theme above.

Lines close at 12.30pm

UPDATE: the winner:

Enda Kenny has egg on his face,
From a visit that never took place,
Now historians moan,
About the National Loan,
And his speechwriter’s going to be replaced.

Clifford Killeen

He went to Tayto Park and Oliver Plunkett’s head.

Did Michael Collins Bring Lenin To Ireland?

From Enda Kenny’s address at Beal na mBlath, Co Cork, on Sunday:

Here at Beal na mBlath we are indeed on sacred ground. The brave, impulsive decision…. “Stop! and we’ll fight them”…. ended Michael Collin’s life but not his power over our history, our national heart, our imagination.
Today, we honour his civilian legacy.
The brilliant Minister for Finance. The outstanding organiser who brought Lenin himself to Ireland to see how the National Loan worked.

Really?

REALLY?

Anyone?

Lenin Brought To ireland By Michael Collins (CedarLoungeRevolution)

Enda Kenny’s speech: Michael Collins’ 90th Anniversary (MerrionStreet.ie)

Sliabh na mBan: Michael Collins’ armoured ‘jam jar’ at Béal na mBláth, Co Cork, yesterday on the 90th anniversary of the Corkman’s death.

Enda Kenny told the gathering

“I think it is safe to say that the giant discrepancies that have occurred in recent years would leave Collins, like all of us, absolutely speechless But helpless? Never — he was a pragmatist, a doer, a passionate lover of Ireland and an unfailing optimist.”

Hmm.

Watch the restoration of Sliabh na mBan in timelapse here.

Taoiseach Leads Tributes To Collins As Thousands Turn Out At Beal na mBlath (Ralph Riegel, irish Independent)

(Thanks Moss)

Members of the press interview Enda Kenny outside the Mansion House, Dublin, this afternoon following The National Standards for the Protection and Welfare of Children launch. That’s Kenny’s chief of staff Mark Kennelly texting something important.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)