
she like “I sure the fuck did”
During the middle of the crash it was disastrous. The industry fell on its knees.
Celia Holman Lee, talking about how the recession hit the Lovely Girl industry. In fairness, it’s got big things in front of it but it’s got a little behind etc etc.
From 1977 an abridged version of the Fianna Fail Election Manifesto. The 1977 Fianna Fail Manifesto has gone down as one which in part led to Irelands fiscal crisis in the 80s. In the main the Manifesto was reportedly crafted by Martin O’Donoghue.
It proved popular with the voters as Fianna Fail were returned with an unprecedented 20 seat majority.
Amongst the below are Tax cuts, abolition of Rates, first time buyer grants of £1000 and other giveaways.
Amongst the first time TDs elected were Bertie Ahern, Pádraig Flynn, Liam Lawlor, Charlie McCreevy, Martin O’Donoghue and Albert Reynolds.
To sum up: Fianna Fáil got rid of water charges and we got Lawlor, Bertie, McCreevy and fucking Pee Flynn instead. There’s a brief timeline of water charges in Ireland from 1977 onwards over on Wikipedia if you want to infuriate yourself even more that no-one grasped this nettle a long time ago.
Mammals, [Cory Doctorow] said…invest a great deal of time and energy in their young, in the pregnancy, in raising them. Dandelions just let their seeds go to the wind, and do not mourn the seeds that do not make it. Until now, creating intellectual content for payment has been a mammalian idea. Now it’s time for creators to accept that we are becoming dandelions.

That is the Táiniste getting hit by a water balloon in Jobstown. Scenes like this make me want to emigrate.