Category: Irish Politics
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I've been added! Oh! Down with the Bourgeoisie!
Lo and behold, Dick O’Brien, myself and Tom Cosgrave, all old stalwarts of the blogging game have been added as contacts to Labour’s flickr page. I promise, I didn’t ask! 🙂
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Henry Kelly weighs in
It looks like it’s taken the former presenter of the terrible ‘Going for Gold’ to actually say what everybody else in the country has been thinking. Choice quotes: “Mr Haughey was accorded a state funeral. A state funeral. This is the honour you accord to heads of state, who have been truly loved, or men…
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Questions and Answers
It was incendiary stuff last night. Watch it here. Oh and on the Week in Politics on Sunday, Vincent Browne made an ass of himself, in my humble opinion. Even better was Michael Martin’s weird response to Sean O’Rourke’s question: As someone who was at both events, in terms of the public response, how did…
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Labour on Flickr
Ah! Socialists have invaded Flickr. Who will be on their contacts list I wonder…
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Le Monde to be sued?
I read in the Tribune on Sunday that Le Monde made a boo-boo with the following: Citant Othello dans son discours d’adieu, “Charlie” affirme “avoir rendu quelque service à l’Etat”. Mais le dernier hommage pourrait revenir à Moira Geoghegan-Quinn, ancien ministre de son cabinet, qui décrit ainsi celui qu’elle appelait “Sweetie” : “C’était un personnage…
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I'm sick…
…sick at the pathetic fawning interviews RTE has conducted in relation to Charles Haughey. Saturday View today was tantamount to this bullshit coverage I have watched and listened to over the last few days. Vincent Browne has turned coat and now loves Haughey apparently. But RTE are not alone. The Indo today made me feel…
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Loach on Newsnight tonight
There should be an interesting discussion on Newsnight tonight when their culture correspondent Stephen Smith interviews Ken Loach, the Palm D’Or winner for the Wind that Shakes the Barley. He hits back at the “headbangers” who’ve accused him of hating his country and tells Newsnight he is proud to be British.
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Should we wait?
Richard calls the event a human one before a political one. He wonders if the week can pass off with some level of respect before the war over his legacy rages. The war has already begun on the TV and radio, and on this blog. I don’t think it is a human event before a…
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RTE/IT obituary
You have the love the conclusion: In his last Dáil address Haughey said: ‘I have always sought to act solely and exclusively in the best interests of the Irish people.’ Even allowing for his public ignominy in the interim, Charles Haughey remained unflinching and, in his own terms, undefeated. What? The Irish Times obituary meanwhile:…
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Haughey is dead
Let the revisionism begin… Odds on everyone saying Charlie was a great leader, wonderful man, rogue character, we are all like Charlie etc etc – 10-1 on How many people will bring up his attempt to bring down McCracken, decades of corruption, endemic cronyism…. 50-1 According to the Indo, Charlie had a personal say in…