West Cork this morning. Or a scene from The Road/Winter’s Bone.
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Some people do golf classics, a night at the dogs and all those sort of things, so we are just having this event. I know it’s difficult for supporters with the expense of these things and they are constantly being asked to buy raffle tickets and various other donations, but democracy in itself has to be funded.
Junior Minister Dara Murphy, who is charging supporters €85 to have breakfast with Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald to raise funds for his general election campaign. Murphy – who owes almost €100,000 in bank debts following the collapse of his catering business – is hosting the event in the Imperial Hotel in Cork city. A full Irish breakfast in the Imperial Hotel generally costs €14.95, while a continental breakfast costs €10.
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De Bert of Christ
Because on de turd day he rose again. So apparently Bertie Ahern isn’t dead, although some within his party might now be wishing he was, as he has dropped trou and taken a massive shit on Micheál Martin:
“It’s going have to be incrementally. It’s not going to be in one election but they will come back, the party will grow – I hope I live to see it,” he told UTV’s ‘Ireland Live’.
He added: “I don’t think they’ll be back in the next election. I presume Fianna Fáil will be in opposition – will be the main opposition after the next election. I think that’s the role they’ll be in and that’s that the role I’d like to see them in.”
But he is glad to be out of the game, as politics isn’t honourable like it was were he were a lad:
Mr Ahern said politics is “nastier now” because politicians do not strongly condemn personal attacks.
“I took the view all of these things should always be condemned and I always did back over the years but unfortunately not everybody did,” he said.
And a few lines up from that:
He infamously said people who speculate about house prices dramatically plunging should kill themselves after UCD Professor Morgan Kelly accurately predicted the property crash.
What a great guy. Ultimately, the problem with people like Bertie is not that they are utter shits, but rather that people vote for them again and again in record numbers. Democracy means we get the politicians we deserve, or, in the case of the decade leading up to the crash, ones that reflect our core values of ‘I don’t want to pay for anything, as long as I have me BMW society can go suck a dick’.
Back in 2009 or so, Bertie came to Cork to open a bookshop for an FF stalwart. We sent out a reporter to vox pop people who were there. Some didn’t want to talk, some rattled on about the Peace Process, but one little old lady was quite willing to chat to us, and she told us she was there because Bertie Ahern was ‘the sunshine of Ireland’. Her exact words.
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Coldest case unit
- He was caught red Handed
- It was a grave offence
- It’s the circle of life..in prison
- Pappa’s got a brand Newgrange
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No, that is the best I can do.
Lyndsey Bell from Ennel Drive, Artane, a mother-of-five who fraudulently claimed €22,000 in single parent benefits after she got married, responding to the judge inquiring if she had any proposals to clear the balance of the money she owes. The court heard the woman, who is on social welfare, has begun to regularise her repayments and has given back €194 out of a total of €22,249.
She is now repaying €80 a month and at that rate it will take 22 years to reimburse the full amount. Gif reaction:
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Previously unseen photo of Micheál and Gerry on the plinth after walking out of the Dáil yesterday
‘I am delighted to open this McFeely development, which will provide an affordable home for you tracksuit types and your pudding bowl haircuts.’
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Can I ask you again – 72 previous convictions for no insurance?
Judge Olann Kelleher asking a garda to repeat the fact that Anthony O’Sullivan from Togher was caught driving without insurance for the 73rd time. The 28-year-old had a list of previous convictions for various offences which ran to the grand total of 421.
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