Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, Tubridy is going to sing.
With any luck he might get Joe Duffy up to do a duet. The Ballyfermot Blusterer can tut and make that contrived sad sigh he does while rolling around in the cash he earns, more than the Taoiseach dontcha know.
“Our job is to put a much-needed smile on people’s face in this country, because it’s a sad place to be at the moment”, says the man whose political family has played a large part in getting us where we are. But it’s ok, he’ll sing and wear a garish jumper and everything will be ok for a night because it will be magical and there’s the sand and bury your head because you’re an ostrich. Happy-clappy nonsense.
Tomorrow thousands of people will go on a demonstration in Dublin city centre. 12 noon. Organised by the ICTU.
“The bond buyers don’t care whether we eat caviar for the next four years or starve to death”, says Jack O’Connor, a union leader earning €200,000 a year who has no chance whatsoever of starving to death.
The hypocrisy is rank yet what can you do? Choose the least worst option, I suppose. The people have to show their anger at what this government has done.
We’ve gotten used to phrases like ‘bankrupted the country’ but they have. We’ve become the laughing stock of Europe, pawns in a game of high finance that few of us had any part in. People are people, you can say what you want about them buying houses and taking mortgages but we’re easily led and easily taken advantage of.
Look instead at the bankers slipping us the financial rohypnol, the government who encouraged them, happy to take their slice (legally and in the brown envelopes) and who, despite all the evidence to the contrary, continued to lie and lie and lie and lie. And then after being exposed as liars, filthy fucking liars, try and tell us they were acting in the national interest.
It would make the most peaceful man think violent thoughts. So, if you’re there tomorrow alongside a bearded-stuttering cunt like Jack O’Connor or a Shinner that doesn’t mean you support them.
It just means you’ve had enough. At last.
due to a family crisis Im going to have to head home to the midlands today – raging Im going to miss this. for the first time this week ive gotten the feeling that everyone else is as angry about/aware of whats going on as Ive been – nice not to be the only one ranting in work.
hopefully it’s the first of many. dec 7th dail protest should be another big un.
and if anyone sees that fucking hypocrit o’connor you have my blessing to cunt him in the bastard.
I won’t be over tomorrow but I’ll be there next weekend by the looks of it.
Fuck knows why anyone from the diaspora should bother and I can’t give a good reason why myself but I would feel ashamed if I don’t make some kind of an effort. I wouldn’t be able to look my nephew in the eye whe he grows up and asks did I do anything.
Fuck Tubridy and his family of parasites, his Director General of RTE grandda and all who sail in the O’Rourkes, the Tubridys, the O’Malleys and the rest of the gombeen families of Ireland.
Its time the shutters were brought down on this lot for good. I don’t care how.
I cant go as I will be working and I thought that it wouls be a bit Hypocritical to bunk off work to go to it..
Or am I wrong?
fill – im hoping to take the afternoon of the 7th dec off for the budget one should it materialise. dont think its hypocritical but if it would endanger your job or lose you money you cant afford to lose then fair enough.
I was in a taxi yesterday and the driver starting easing into the old refugee bashing moan. I felt my blood starting to boil. He was also a staunch Bertie supporter.
By the time I left the taxi, I had convinced him that Bertie and his mates had fooled him for years with his man of the people charade and he was no better than the Monk or John Gilligan.
Oh and he won’t be launching into misinformed moans about refugees any time soon.
I was in Dublin last week and the Taxi driver that took us from the station to the hotel was just about the soundest and most helpful fecker you could possibly meet,he recommended a load of reasonably priced resturants to eat in, and he called FF a shower of slave creating cunts..
A shining example to all other drivers..
Thought I’d throw that in as theres rarely a good Taxi driver story thrown up here..
Well said.
And you might add the rest of the cosy commentariat to your sights, all of them who dress ‘spin’ up as independent analysis. They are so embedded in the comfy status quo that they’ve been asleep for years.
they still voted for the fuckers though:
Fianna Fáil’s Brian O’ Domhnaill on 21.2% in Donegal, how did he even get 0.2%? unless 21.2 % of Donegal voters have a mental sense of humour.
All you reluctant heroes with excuses for not being there tomorrow, shouldn’t worry too much, you’ll be able to see it on TV, it’ll be better on TV, the BBC will show it as it happens, RTE will show it the way they thought it happened but are not sure, but it will be repeated on SKY and EURO NEWS every 20 minuets, so you’ll be able to discuss the way the Irish are portrayed to the world.
I think the employment crisis is over, everybody in Ireland seems to be working tomorrow!
ennis – fianna fail are down to the hardcore support. as a percentage of everyone this might be one in 10 – 10% – these cunts always vote, so when you get a 50% turnout this 10% of the overall population becomes 20% of the vote.
fianna fail have trived in part, because your average joe soap either hasnt bothered to vote, or has been discouraged by the ballots being held on work days, as oposed to sat.
lots of thick fianna fail fuckers in donegal’ the party the party’ they cant get enough of being fucked
alfie – suck my hole.
excellent summary of what’s wrong with everything. as ennis points out, 20% of people are fucking cunts. in fact there’e a low turnout which means all the the other ff’ers are staying home so 40% of people of fucking cunts.
and 600,000 people watch The Shit, Shit Show so 600,000 people are fucking cunts.
There’s a shitload of fucking cunts in this country and rte is full to the brim with them.
Fill, risking your livelihood would only make matters worse, people will understand that so don’t worry. And there will be other opportunities and ways I’m sure.
I hope there is a huge turn-out. A friend of mine living in the UK is going over especially to take part tomorrow. It’s easy to think nothing will change and therefore do nothing, but there is only one certainty – doing nothing will guarantee there is no change. All the very best to everybody attending, and those present in spirit.
christy – to some extent its like voting i guess – if fuck all people vote you hand democracy to the minority. if fuck all people protest you hand protest to the minority.
been thinking about this alot lately….
both peaceful protest and the vote are fundemental democratic rights – regardless of whether change results from a protest/vote – you arguable have a duty to exercie those rights..
or something -
did anyone see eastenders last night?
sorry – my spelling is particularly shit today../
fill3rup
November 26th, 2010 @ 11:33 am
I cant go as I will be working and I thought that it wouls be a bit Hypocritical to bunk off work to go to it..
Or am I wrong?
you’ll probably find it difficult to explain the footage of you on six-one news getting the shit kicked out of you by bunch of orcs released from their cages for the day
Donegal voters are retarded. We have to isolate this contagion before it spreads countrywide and morally bankrupts the nation….wait, i feel like I heard this story before
I am going on that march tomorrow by the way.
Yes Razzer I agree. Change as a result of the protest would be by far the better outcome but even if that doesn’t happen it’s really important to demonstrate disagreement and not just appear to accept it without objection, as you say that is a right we have in democracies and we should exercise it
i put of me fishing to go’next to drinking stout thats the best thing in my life
There’s a lot of nay-sayers on various fora (yes I typed fora) and blogs that are just FF plants trying to split opinion and undermine the purpose of protest.
When the people who are supposed to speak for you in the Dáil don’t do it, you do it yourself.
If your choice is a leaky, bockety liferaft or no liferaft at all, it’s not really that difficult
funny i am glad the murders are winning this vote strange as it is
I overheard a woman on the bus yesterday having a very deliberately loud conversation about how she works for John Gormley and how he’s got no social skills.
It was good to hear him be castigated in public by someone who knows him personally.
Mind you, the woman was a coarse old tramp of a thing with filthy language and a smokers hack going on every time she laughed.
Still believe her though.
Get these corrupt cunts out of power as soon as possible.
Kenneth Clarke, conservative minister said last night on Question Time that Lenihan has made a “rash” decision guaranteeing the banks i.e. rash=incorrect=wrong=fucked up
Faisal Islam, the economics correspondent for Channel 4 News, said last night that the current irish government is the cause of uncertainty.
Bertie Aherns brother, Noel Ahern, was on RTE Radio 1 last night explaining why he would “be afraid” to go to the demonstration. Say’s it all.
I would love to be there,but its not a matter of bunking off for an hour and nipping back before anyone notices as I lve about 21/2 hours away from Dublin..
Ill take a piss in Willy O’Dea’s letter box tomorrow though..
Holemaster
November 26th, 2010 @ 1:09 pm
I overheard a woman on the bus yesterday having a very deliberately loud conversation about how she works for John Gormley and how he’s got no social skills.
It was good to hear him be castigated in public by someone who knows him personally.
Mind you, the woman was a coarse old tramp of a thing with filthy language and a smokers hack going on every time she laughed.
Still believe her though.
Marian Finucane working for The Greens?
Fuck off Alfie- brave words for a bunch of people who are nothing more than American lickspittles and spend half their time as social doormats for a family of German aristocrats.
How’s your new ultra secret stealth submarine coming along?
The Scots and the Australians asked me to say please stop bumping into their countries and buy some binoculars for your lookouts. Dopey cunts.
HMS ‘Astute’ me hole.
Will be in Ireland by midnight, and taking a stroll down by Wood Quay in the morning. Jaze, it’ll be great to see the auld place again, I’m sure. Stick us on a Guinness there, like a good man.
Welcome back ,The Mowl!
I’m sure there’s a baton with my name on it, but fuck that..bring it on cunts. There isn’t a lot of time left really, is there?
The Mowl has entered the building!
fill3rup
November 26th, 2010 @ 1:19 pm
Welcome back ,The Mowl!
The Mowl
November 26th, 2010 @ 1:20 pm
I’m sure there’s a baton with my name on it, but fuck that..bring it on cunts. There isn’t a lot of time left really, is there?
heh
don’t worry mowl, the cops are doing the third world thing, beating up everyone. see the footage of them wrestling an old man to the ground.
I can’t go tomorrow as I work in Tunisia and it’s a bit far to commute but I really hope it is a proper protest as opposed to one hijacked by a bunch of loonies or people just hell bent on causing trouble and damaging property etc.
Watching some of the student protests in London on the TV on Wednesday it is quite obvious there was an element there just hell bent on causing trouble, breaking windows, starting fires and trashing a police van. Then THEY complain about the police. I’m no lover of cops/garda but sometimes you really can’t blame them
Anyway, good luck to all who do attend. Hope there are no brocken heads.
Fuck me, the latest tally from Donegal has FF on over 21%. The most annoying part of it is that Fianna Fail will consider that a victory and a valedation of their policies. “It’s just that the other 79% don’t understand”.
Maybe they’ll Lisbon it and the people of Donegal will be made to vote weekly until they give the right result.
Serve them right.
I’ve seen it Fill..and all the rest of the circus freak show. It’s not good for the optics, all this malarkey, the view from the far North is dismal. We all have a part to play now though: even the ex-pats.
There should be a storming of RTE to destroy their broadcasting ability and stop them from feeding us all the lies.
And the Independent Newspapers printing facility near Citywest should be incapacitated.
Or just Brendan O’Connor.
Mary Coughlan just said that “Fianna Fail is the onlty party offering certainty”.
off ye’s go
Me first
Mary Coughlan just said that “Fianna Fail is the only part offering certainty that the Fianna Fail party is scum.”
I have me eye on Saint Lukes. The little bollix has been very quiet of late. Down playing a round with Charlie in his front garden eighteen hole so.
Myself & the missus will postpone our usual Saturday morning game of hide the tantric sausage to attend. Like the others I’ve no time for the unions but if its the only show in town then it’ll have to do.
Captain!
It’s very silly to bite the hand that feeds you!
Hey Maggot, can you go and check if the PSNI Water Canons are still parked in their yard or are they en route to Dublin?
Water Cannon ?
I heard that Obama is shipping over Apaches!
Alfie- lets see if the UK economy can feed 70million people.
There are 4million in Ireland and a lot of land.
Try sucking sustenance from German cock.
Apaches wouldn’t stand a chance in Dublin. The Sherriff St Posse Under 12′s GAA team would have them disassembled and under the beds at home in seconds.
Living abroad I have to say I feel embarrased and ashamed by whats gone on at home. For the last few weeks people at work and friends have commented about the situation and while they have all been pleasant you can see that they’re thinking ‘what a useless corrupt untrustworthy lazy bunch of wankers’.
The thing that would be even more embarrassing would be that if tomorrow there was no real substantial show of anger – that we just take it lying down without a whimper. So please if you can despite the shit weather – get out there and show the rest of the world that we at least have some pride in ourselves and that we do give a shit.
IMF eyes up our infrastructure. I read this story as “Ireland’s telecoms infrastructure up for grabs”
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/eircom-may-breach-terms-of-its-loans-2437682.html
This is kind of stuff we need to be watching out for. Eircom owns all the exchanges and copper and fibre on behalf of the government.
Poor old Alfie doesn’t realise that the only reason Lord Snooty from the Bash St Kids has offered Ireland a bilateral loan is because he’s shitting himself that UK exports will be hammered if the Irish economy defaults.
Which it will. Never mind. England will have a pure Anglo-Saxon-Norman-French-Dane-Welsh & various Scraps leader to lead them out of the valley.
handsome devil …
What is it with the Brits and cyclops politicians anyway?
Agree with you murty – I get the same here where I work. Worst is, I also work for an Austrian company.
Now. try to imagine the shit I get !!!
The English are just French anyway. The Saxon in them was ridden out of them by the Normans.
Mossy
November 26th, 2010 @ 1:25 pm
Then THEY complain about the police. I’m no lover of cops/garda but sometimes you really can’t blame them
Anyway, good luck to all who do attend. Hope there are no brocken heads.
must resist, count to 10, deep breaths, do not take bait, resist the urge to reply that sit down student protestors were dragged along the ground to inflict as much skin-ripping pain as possible from the templemore pigs. can’t resist the truth.
mowl – live nearby and saw the shifty little cunt being driven out the back entrance yesterday in a big shiney merc. passed straight in front of me.
was carrying shopping but had the presence of mind to roar ‘ya cunt’ at him and give him the finger before he sped off.
often Ive harboured dreams of violence walking past that place at night. you’d probably just end up burning some secatary to death – and we all know bertie would have no problem with underlings left to fry!
sorry – not yesterday – monday!
Mossy if you work for an Austrian company point out to them that the Austrian banks have been laundering mafia money for years.
Mention ‘Refeissen’ to them and tell them to stop laundering money for the Calabrian mafia through the banking system.
“BROADCASTER Ryan Tubridy will make history tonight when he becomes the first ‘Late Late’ host to sing on the long-running chatshow”.
It’s right up there with the Reformation, the French Revolution, the American Civil War, the first and second World Wars, the collapse of Communism in eastern Europe etc etc.
Much as I loathe the leaders of ICTU, I will be marching tomorrow as an independent protester against the actions of the whores of FF/GP.
Captain Con.. your comments and banal Germanic unfunniness implies that your political savvy and bigotry/xenophobia are on a level with the facially gifted twat from the UK’s loser party that you managed to post here and the beloved and even unfunnier embarrassment that is “Alfie”.
There are many, many people over here who understand the implications of what is going on across the water for all of us, even the Belgians FFS.
People who are on the way to the March in Dublin tomorrow. People who are able to see a bit further than the green tinted goggles that you see the world through.
A request to the gardai re: tomorrows march.
It would be of enormous assistance if you would pay the marchers the courtesy of standing to attention and saluting as you would for a funeral. For that is what it is, the death of our soverign nation.
Thank you.
Some chance of that happening:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1126/breaking27.html
itchybollix please read what I said ! I was referring to the student protests in London on Wednesday of this week. NOT the Dublin student protest.
Watch out for ‘protesters’ in blue slacks and black shoes.
I understand that mossy, I’m just saying that you can really blame them
Papalamour my response was to a fucking moron EDF/BNP prick who doesn’t understand his own country is in the shit.
If you want to assess my level of knowledge of politics and what is going on try politicalworld.ie and read yourself in.
When you say ‘ver here’ where’s ‘here’?
I must say thats the first time I’ve been accused of having green tinted goggles. I’m usually being told to shut up because I bluntly tell people that Ireland is a socially retarded and corrupt rock off the coast of Europe.
Only because there is a coterie of some 30 families and perhaps 300-500 hangers on running everything there. I’m usually in trouble for saying things like that- for the first time I can remember people are actually agreeing with me.
And then you come along and claim I’m a blindly patriotic Irishman. Oh the fucking irony.
Oh yeah- and fuck the germans. And their habit of flying German bank staff into Dublin to pull dodgy gambles involving derivatives then flying him to fill out a form for the risk managers internal reports that everything is ‘dory hunky’.
The German banks have more to do with the current crisis than most people realise.
i hope people have the decency to leave the kids at home
i have a feeling that it is going to get violent
and i dont condone violence
Shades of the Love Ulster march 2006
The Government are not stupid
They have the bloody army on standby
They KNOW there is going to be trouble
Don’t fall for the spin Pale. There won’t be serious trouble.
Check out this from the European parliment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyq7WRr_GPg&feature=player_embedded
it’s strange days when SF and UKIP are making perfect sense. The face on Van Rumpey?
thanks for the link killemall
You’re welcome itchy, nice to be able to contribute.
Good link that Killemall.
The European Project that we used to think was about free movement, smoking spliffs in Amsterdam, having more continental babes in Ireland and general social interaction has instead turned into some shadowy economic ideology of corporate domination.
Charlie McCreevy was the European Commissioner in charge of regulation in the financial sector up until he was forced to resign under the Obvious Cunt Act.
Just sayin … he ran a consultation on regulation of the banks in which he looked up the best restaurant of every bank in Europe and then decided that he’d better launch another around of consultations.
Maybe they gave him a Vomitarium as a leaving present.
remember bertie “it’s only other peoples money” ahern has his grubby paws all over the state of the union too. it was his wheeling and dealing that cobbled it together. you lay down with dogs….
If Bertie had a sliver of dignity he would have been found swinging off his bannisters..
But the cunt will walk the earth until he is forgiven by a prosperous and therefore forgetful general public,die in his sleep and get a massive state funeral..
…rather than what he deserves,
1 in the brain and thrown in a ditch on fire..
Bertie is slithery snake on Wanderly Wagon.
Someone I know told me their father thinks Bertie the Bollix is a great fella, this idiot being a publican from the country, of course.
So some sectors are still backing FF, mostly people who were “looked after”, and lots of people in the country also support them. That’s outside of Dublin country, not THE country country.
Sliver of dignity …? The man sat in a cupboard for a TV ad.
Even Blair wouldn’t do that and he’s one of the biggest money whores on the circuit.
According to Ursula on TV3 News, FF are knackered, and having got such a low percentage of votes in Donegal, they think they have no chance in the rest of the country.
At last, the penny has dropped!
I’d pay that fucker Tuberly to shut the fuck up.
I mean seriously do they want to push people over the edge completely. You’re very distraught and depressed for the last few years over our current predicament. You’re trying to find a reason to live. You turn on the shit shit show by accident and that’s it, you’ve had enough.. Where’s the nearest bridge.
RTE are a cruel, sadistic bunch. They have to be. I’m thinking of ‘Crystal swing’ on Turberly a few months back. (she talks dirty, he drinks tequila in Spanish or something to that effect) Sadistic.
Sadistic and sneaky, Anne.
TV3 News said FF are shitting it after the Donegal result, RTE News say the Donegal result will have no effect on a general election.
Fuckers can’t even tell the truth when everyone knows they are lying.
As for Streak-of-Piss Tubridy, words fail me.
If any more evidence is needed of the FF bias in RTE, he and his cousin, MacSavage, are the poster boys. Mindless, talentless, deluded, third rate, biased, out of touch.
Just like the rest of RTE, and FF.
Very true Silla. RTE are useless cunts like FF. Watched Prime Time last night. That fucker Eamon o’Cuiv Minister for Social Raping got off very lightly on it last night, when he was justifying the cut to the minimum wage. He wasn’t questioned at all. If I was interviewing him I’d nearly have to slap him across the face to cop on.
Your language is fucking disgraceful.
Dave McSavage is related to the drooling, chair-fucker that is Ryan Turbridy? I’ve never seen or heard Dave McSavage, will keep an eye out for him. Turbidy reminds me of the song “In saccharine we trust”…by an american punk band. i think. i think that was the name of the song too. anyhow. yeah, i agree.
I like your style filler. captain, Bertie. you can judge a man by the company he keeps etc, etc,.when he handed the bull the “job” as minister for arts and culture he allegedly said “enjoy yourself”
http://www.tribune.ie/article/2010/nov/21/ex-ceann-comhairle-threatens-to-sue-ryanair/
all i can say is
THANK F**K FF did not get the Donegal seat
Father Eamon O’Cuiv is the Vatican’s man in Ireland.
Oh god. Sleet snow and max temps 0-3 degrees tomorrow. Why couldn’t this have all gone down in the summertime??
Hm, I mailed you re tomorrow.
There’ll be plenty of heat, lots of warm bodies, and vehement chanting will keep everyone warm.
Yes, Itchy, Dave MacSavage is Tubridy’s first cousin, as he is the son of one of the Andrewseses who are FF politicians. MacSavage was the warm up act for Pat Kenny on the Late Late for years, he probably still does it. Incestuous cunts, the lot of them
Oh, and forgot to mention that MacSavage is also Twenty’s favourite Irish comedian.
yeah, i’ve seen the odd post here questioning the use of dave mcsavage
re: tomorrow; I was saying to someone earlier, i can’t go because I don’t do mornings. you know you can rely on me at electioneering time. i don’t want any moaning, I’m not going. don’t start. plus i’m going out later. plus it’s not going by leinster house which is a bit like protesting against mordor from the shire. justifying to myself. can’t go. will send good vibes by boogeying to this at midday….that’s a bit early actually..brunch time.,,loving the simple winglike move from high to low.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnefUaKCbc
can someone get me a “holy cow” from itsabagel in arnotts please? thanks
I’m not convinced by your excuses, itchy. Not at all.
HM: ‘Father Eamon O’Cuiv is the Vatican’s man in Ireland.’
Its nice to see a family tradition maintained. The best part of Eamon O’Cuiv dribbled down his Da’s leg.
I’m mad as hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08&feature=related
Re Donegal SW it appears that the highlights are Doherty polled more than FF/FG together polled, the Labour weirdo stayed at home sulking and Mary Coughlan’s MediaSlag Sean Perry was trying to prevent photos being taken of the fencepost in a frock by standing in front of photographers as they were focusing.
Little man with a CIA fixation it appears
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2010/11/26/donegal-by-election-why-did-sean-perry-try-and-stop-photographs-being-taken-of-mary-coughlan/
Captain over the past few weeks you’ve made
some teasing comments concerning German and
Austrian banks and the part they’ve played in
recent events.Is there any chance you could
come up with the sort of diagram one sees on
police dramas i.e. lots of arrows connecting
people and depicting flows of money?
Sweary Mary in Donegal. That dress! WTF?
Is it any wonder her lackey tries to block photographers.
excellent roisin, that’s what I’ll do then. yes jo, I know, they’re pretty weak
with regard to banks, ireland and the imf. the imf has a track record of having to go into countries which are financially corrupt to the political core. argentina and thailand immediately spring to mind.
nobody went to jail there, nobody will go to jail here. i could draw a map but i’d probably get arrested. bit like the beef tribunal; the only person to go to the jail was the person who blew the lid on the fraud.
fianna fail and mary harney have destroyed politics.
p.s. mary coughlan looks like she’s getting ready to on the lash. she appears to me to have something on her mind thses days. a new handbag maybe
I could Sheep but I’d have to name an originating bank and a destination bank and there are issues around that at the moment.
Its a good idea though and I’ll have a think about what’s possible.
I’m thinking of a list of banks currently under investigation in home countries for money laundering and other scandals but I have to be careful.
There are a couple of whistleblowers around about and I can say that my snuffling along a certain track independently has drawn their attention and a furious nodding of the head which leads me to believe I’m right about the route the money has been flowing and where some of it is coming from..
Sorry to be mysterious but I have to protect someone else here…
This is a very good blog though by David Malone, the author of The Debt Generation. I know enough to know that this guy is worth reading- he writes well and very clearly on some of the issues around derivatives and European banking. Highly recommended.Nice guy too…
http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-bankrupted-ireland.html
Media and 5-O hyping up the idea of trouble and it’s working! A few people I know afraid to bring their kids. Never mind O’Connor and Beggs, there time is nearly up too, ordinary union members are fucked off with all talk, no action, love-ins with FF. All will change tmw. Remember the Poll Tax!
Captain Con… glad to have fuelled the fires of irony on such a cold, bleakly oil dependent evening.
I come from an area of Britain that is named after the f****g kings or more likely in that time warlords “the O’Talibannagh’s of Leinster”.. They came over here raped, pillaged and then borrowed heavily before heading back west.
Yeah, I’m not bringing my kids. Just in case. And because they’d whine the whole time. But the 0-3 degrees and sleet puts me off too, they’re not so well.
Papa, was that in the last ten years or back around 900 AD?
The irony is the less law abiding people go then the more likely it is there’ll be violence. The cops are so poltical here.
Thanks Cap’n.
Don’t bring kids bring their marbles instead –
horses hate them and one can keep them out of
sight in one’s pocket.
Scotland Papa?
I think the Irish did a bit of rape and pillage I’m Wales.
I’ve nothing against the horses. The marbles have all been lost long ago anyway, I reckon.
Senator David Norris during a debate on energy yesterday in the Seanad attempted to place the names of bondholders on the Oireachtas record. An agitated Cathoirleach attempted to rule him out of order and suspended business for five minutes.
Quote from Senator Norris “One Swiss bondholder holds 40% and will get millions from us”
A number of companies were named and I’m checking some of the less familiar ones to see if they are hedgefunder LLPs which would shed some light on a few things for me. Well done Senator Norris …
http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?t=5745
Christ. 6.7% interest rate for EU/IMF bail out. No fucking way we can pay that. This is bad.
Papalamour- they never used to call them hedgefunders back then.
I think it was hedgeschoolers …
exactly hm; they are useless, they serve themselves.
forget about the marbles and the horses. anyhow, horses are expert marbles players.
gandhi major
Don’t worry HM about the rates or amounts we went past ability to pay a while back. There’s a certain kind of glory in it … a cavalry charge under the guns.
Bollocks to the amount- we’re going to be famous forever and get on Celebrity Fucking Hell Did You See That!- ALL of us. This time next year we’ll be millionaires…
I think we’ll default. This may not be as bad as it sounds and there’s something in the wind which makes me think also we may be able to fuck the bondholders over into accepting shit tranches of shares in Oirland Inc.
Hear the thunder of our heavily indebted hooves …
The only thing we have to fear is our own officers- a bit like the Brits in World War One and the Crimea, Lenny as Lord Raglan the aristocratic incompetent … Mary Coughlan as the heavy bosomed love interest and Mary Harney as the baggage train.
Move over T Boone Pickens you Texan smalldick- he went bankrupt owing a mere handful of billions. Irish Cavalry coming through and charging into history books and glory … yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhaaaaaaaaaaaa
Into the valley of debt rode the 4 and a half million…….
All right Itchy peaceful it is.I just hope
the authorities reciprocate. The head cop
said his lot are prepared for trouble though
not expecting it.But if you see an agent
provocateur in action make a citizens arrest
before he/she can make it back to police lines
but if he/she resists such arrest you have my
permission to dispense summary justice! Joke!!!
Although that 6.7% could be a trick. Lenihan will of course negotiate it down to 5% or 4% and try to fool us into thinking he saved us from the brink.
I remember somebody saying there is a 3% set-up
fee to go on top of the interest charged.
rte getting fed ff propaganda with regard to rate, in my opinion.
but van rumpey looked like shit in that nigel falafel vid from the eu.
i will sell my body
Oh Lenny … (swoon)
Silla … heh on the Charge of the Light Brigade. Tennyson is quite apt I suppose. Didn’t he write ‘In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a pleasure dome decree..’ as well.
Hmmm.
On, one into the valley of debt rode the 4million.. Twenty this blog is starting to attract well-read people now and I think you should amend the rules in case we lose Peadar.
except to iris robinson. she can have a freebie
Bring cameras, just in case
I know two press photographers going. They’re particularly interested in flushing out agitators in the crowd. One of them is an expert in protests, did his masters in it. He’s flown in from Italy just to cover it. He was in Greece and he’s always at the G20s. He knows exactly what to look for.
Whatever you DON’T bring any laser pen flashlights. Horses get very upset by them.
and Mary Coughlan. Horses and Mary. Thats right. Sensitive eyes.
I just googled images for agent provocateur.
My word.
holemaster – The big push of the gwyddelwyr came around 300 BC and the raping, borrowing and early period aherns / harneys didn’t really end until around 600AD..although latterly only with the approval of early Caesar Berlusconis
They did build some fierce hill fortage here though.
cap con – hedges? they were making wine from vineyards here then.
And on the subject of Berlusconi = A man who defines the mediocrity of Ahern’s ethical standards.. his best friend and tubriddioni like friend has been brought to task by a 70 yr old
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs/4od#3139906
erm that link was a bit of a clipboard giveaway ….?
and here for what it is worth is the intended link:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/whod-be-silvios-friend-tv-star-punched-at-dinner-2144020.html
Thank f*** i cleared the cache after my clearly british taste for http://widdecombegash4cash.com
Papalamour, I was only reading about Llewellyn ap Gruffydd the other day.
I’d heard about some band of Leinster chieftans attacking Wales alright. Didn’t realise it was that early though. Must look that up.
I see Gwyddel means Irishman.
nice people the Welsh … always wanted to see Anglesey … or Mona as it was back then.
Take back that bloody shepherd going by the Irish name of Patrick and we’ll give you back your sheep.
Holemaster – gwyddel means Gael..gwyddelig is Irish. We have “cytiau’r gwyddelwyr” in the fields next to our house.. Irish Round Houses. Most of the coastal burial mounds near us face wicklow – stuff the solstice.. bury me so that i can see my homeland.
I have worked out the bearing from our house to Elland Road so I am intent on arrying out this longstanding tradition although hopefully this will be a distant building project.
Con – I am sure an exchange could be arranged if you promised to deliver Dewi Sant with coracle and a suitably amended birth certificate.
What are the sheep wearing?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opinion/26krugman.html?src=me&ref=homepage
So was it really the decision to bailout the banks that caused he shit storm ?
Papalamour … don’ worry about no paperwork… we Irish don’ need no steenkin paperwork…
OK folks can anybody give me the
low-down on this piece of shit
Martin Mansergh?
From what I can glean he is like Sutherland
in that he can waltz into public life in the
same way as the kid from the posh family up
the road that your parents have agreed to
mind for the day,lord it over you and your
toys then fuck off(still to come)to rarefied
places and become a M.o.t.U.
Richeleau comes to mind as does
Podge n Rodge’s paedo brother(the one that’s
locked in the attic)
mucksavage that Krugman article is right on the money- literally.
In looking at Ireland compared to Iceland you have to say that the Irish government being bounced into or allowing themselves to be bounced into guaranteeing the debt of the Irish banks was a disaster.
What were we trying to avoid? Officially a run a on banks and ‘loss of confidence’. Where are we now? Suffering a run and with the IMF in Dublin.
The Icelandic Govt had similar reasons plus the banks whispering in their ear to do the same thing there but the Icelanders put a stop to the nexus between the bankers and the Govt arranging to hand debt off to the people. They still have problems but nothing like ours.
But then did Iceland have a ‘bank’ like Anglo-Irish which to my mind was less of a bank than a party donor?
If we had let the banks burn and put the money we’ve sunk without trace into Anglo into one healthy bank or even floated the Credit Union sector we’d be like Iceland now- in all sorts of trouble politically but we wouldn’t have the IMF in Dublin now.
The Icelandic politicians tried to cover corruption there by going down this road- the scale of Irish politician’s corruption has yet to be uncovered in my opinion.
Captain I followed the Golem link.
I am in your debt.Thankyou.
I emailed it to some anarchist friends
in Berlin as well as posting a comment.
The police have a mnemonic device to help
build a case MAGICOP
Motive
Ability
Guilty
Intent
Culpability
OPportunity
The motive is there for all to see but
it takes a lot of ferreting about to
complete the picture.
In the right jurisdiction one can bring a
private prosecution for a common law crime.
Or conspiring to commit a common law crime
of dishonesty,be it theft,fraud or embezzlement.
The bankers flying in to Ireland for a day
were well aware of the fact that they were
circumventing the rules of their home
jurisdiction and that their financial wizardry
was just smoke and mirrors without any sound
economic basis,that things would come
crashing down and all they had to do was get
out at the right time.
Red lasers are incorporated in rifles,pistols and other types of firearms as aiming devices. If you bring red laser pointers the police and the army might belive that you are aiming weapons at them. Not a smart thing to do. Don’t give them an excuse to shoot if things get sticky. Good luck with the protest.
5 years from now RTE will make a documentary about this whole sorry episode
Ex Taoiseach Brian Cowen will come on screen and say two things
1 i did not ask the IMF to come to Ireland. They came of their own violation
2 The Green Party stabbed me in the back
No admissions of failure
No accountability
No apologies
FF to the core
Kubla Kahn was Coleridge, just sayin
Likes 19′s comment*
Cheers 19 I was walking back from the corner shop last night and I got this uneasy feeling I’d had that wrong…
The ghost of Coleridge hissing at me from the shadows…
Sheepshagger you are on the money there quite literally.
If you add together the habit banks had of ignoring the risk ratios on a day by day basis and allowing the capital and liquidity ratios to ‘wobble’ a bit…
add that to the German accountancy hole where trade in derivatives is allowed to be ‘assumed’ as a neutral effect in the books at the end of an accounting period then you are starting to see the edges of what some major banks have been up to.
In my opinion some rather large European banks set up subsidiaries deliberately in order to be able to do ‘off balance sheet’ gambling through low regulatory and tax haven areas such as the Dublin IFSC.
Same as Anglo formed an Austrian subsidiary called Anglo-Irish Austria AG which allowed them under Austrian banking laws to operate ‘nominee’ accounts behind whom almost anyone can operate without disclosure of who they are.
They are the deliberate holes in the bucket of European banking regulation.
The G20 group of companies are aware of what the banks have been doing as they threatened to blacklist countries such as Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Austria if they did not comply with new Basel II connected banking regulations after it was discovered that the funding for 9/11 terrorists came through a Bahraini bank using secrecy havens and nominee accounts.
One major Italian bank I cannot currently name is currently being investigated for laundering mafia money through subsidiaries and nominee accounts in Austria.
‘the G20 group of countries’ not ‘companies’ … well … one can understand the slip…
The major Italian bank I mentioned has a significant presence in the Dublin IFSC. The significant subsidiary of that Italian bank is also on the Anglo Bondholder list released by Guido Fawkes back about a month or so ago.
There is no suggestion of any impropriety on the subsidiary in Ireland. Its the pipeline from Austria to Dublin that interests me and the ability of European banks involved in eastern europe and southern europe to wash money of uncertain origin through nominee accounts into the respectability of bondholdings I find interesting.
Wonder how badly the turnout today will be affected by the inclement weather…? I fear it will be significant, which is seriously ‘dommage’…
Sheepshagger; Martin Mansergh is a former civil servant in the Dept of Foreign Affairs who has a doctorate in philosophy and got a tap on the shoulder to join the Soldiers of Economic Dysentery from one Charles Haughey.
There may be an Anglo ‘Ascendancy’ connection buried under that somewhere.
Mansergh is Ireland’s ‘Governor’ or representative at the IMF.
He also has degrees in waving his arms around under a debating opponent’s nose in interviews, a certificate in dandruff and squawking like a deranged parrot in public.
Essentially he’s the sort of lad the Brits wisely stash away as a don at Oxford and Cambridge and provide with three square meals and a classroom to keep them out of trouble and the public eye.
Basically he’s a heritage version of Alan Dukes.
0. Captain Con O’Sullivan
November 27th, 2010 @ 10:57 am
Basically he’s a heritage version of Alan Dukes.
lol
Anyway back to Tubridy’s Song To Cheer Up Ireland.
I suggest Style Council’s ‘Snout To The Top’
Heh, Cap’n, and how about Sister Sledge : We Are Family
Ha ha – wish I’d thought of that one christy … Twenty will be on later with a groaner as he can’t resist these ones.
No pressure Twenty.
Motherfucker from Hell by The Datsuns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWVxGFIpPB8&playnext=1&list=PL8CA64242E21097B4&index=6
You’re a big girl now – Bob Dylan
You’re gonna make lonesome when you go, not – Bob Dylan when he’s sarcastic
(currently listening to Bob Dylan)
spotted at the march which i wasn’t at
http://i53.tinypic.com/29bozcz.jpg
“… a union leader earning €200,000 a year who has no chance whatsoever of starving to death.
The hypocrisy is rank yet what can you do? ”
When the people we elect to represent us, no longer represent us, we have to make our voices heard.
He was boo’d today after his shitty speech because it was full of platitudes with no call to action. It wasn’t what many of the protesters there wanted.
The greed and stupidity of Irish politicians… sigh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAWXC5Z0wU&feature=player_embedded#!
Yeah, he was getting a lot of happy laughs, itchy
When the people we elect to represent us, no longer represent us, we have to make our voices heard.
He was boo’d today after his shitty speech because it was full of platitudes with no call to action. It wasn’t what many of the protesters there wanted.
Brilliant. I hope there’s video of that.
Just home from the march, O’Connor was roundly booed for much of his speech but to listen to the snippet on RTE radio you wouldn’t think it. He was the only speaker that got grief & proper order too. He and his type are as culpable as any of them.
The Irish Times ends with this line:
‘Business group Chambers Ireland said the union protest was “out of touch with reality”.’
And directly below it is an ad for ‘A taste of paradise in Mauritius’ With its unspoiled natural beauty.
Of course I meant Begg instead of O’Connor.
O’Connor and Begg both got dogs-abuse. A lot of union members are fucked off with leaders on 100,000 plus, who sit on boards with the government and employers. O’Connor pretended not to hear it, but Begg finished up after about two minutes.
The other speakers: an apprentice plumber, a pensioner, a community head, and a striker from the Laura Ashley shop were better. Good to have the girl from Laura Ashley there. They are a private sector firm, that have laid off staff, who in turn have been standing out on strike in Grafton Street for two months. Funny, all the SINDO heads who moan about the private sector being shafted never mention things like that: has Shane Ross been up to show his support to the pickets: like fuck he has.
Two years ago Michael O’Leary said what Europe needed was a good recession to force down costs and wages. IBEC and these cunts are loving this. Cut the minimum wage, but dear fuck do not bring in a maximum wage!
The government will only listen when the lights go out in Leinster House and for that we need a general strike. (You ICTU haters may not like it but only they can pull that off).
(I am aware there is probably a generator in the Dail, but you know where I’m going with this).
Where we out marching today twenty ?
I have noticed that its the right-wing freemarketeer believers who assume that the decimation of the Irish economy through letting businessmen do whatever they want can now be cured by even being much more regulation free.
It wasn’t fucking socialism that Seanie Fitzpatrick and the rest of IBEC were practising.
Ask these people which socialist government has been in power in Ireland over the last 20 years. Who set up the Dublin International Financial Services Centre which as far as I know is not a nest of communists? Mafia maybe but not communists.
I’m shit sick of these people who can blank out the destruction around them caused by a complete lack of regulation of banks who gambled like Vegas cokewhores on shit derivatives falsely valued by chancers, people who screech about the minimum wage roonin’ d’economy when cunts like Johnny Ronan are mysteriously silent about what they are going to do for their country in its hour of need.
‘You can’t tax us we’ll move abroad’. Not much green jersey in that.
How the fuck any Irish freemarketeer Thatcherlover can look at Ireland now and decide to blame sociaism or too much regulation would make you wonder whether these people are just fucking mad or simple in the head.
IBEC members apparently can’t calculate costs on a product or service, add a margin and charge that at a competitive rate to a customer.
I’d like to see IBEC in front of the Dragons Den mob.
“What have you got for us?”
“Nuttin. We can’t produce an’ting because dere’s too much regulation and de government won’t let is drive wages down to the breadline.”
“Have you ever thought of becoming a lobby group?”
“Dats a great idea can we set it up in a tax and regulation free zone so we can employ or our families and can we have a grant and can we have garda escorts and can’
“Fuck off IBEC.”
“Socialists! Ye’re all commies! Give us money for nottin’! Giv’s it.”
By far the biggest benefit thieves in Ireland are in the Dail and the bank boardrooms and all friends of IBEC.
With the exception of Pearse Doherty TD. heh.
Agree Captain. Don’t they always say the left couldn’t be put in charge of the economy because they would fuck it up?
I love the way discussion of the government’s fuck-ups ignores that the most pro-business, free market party, the PDs, were in government from 1997-2007. McDowell, Parlon, Harney…come on on down you fucking bastards, you helped bring us to this- as did your chum McCreevey (see his praise for Thatcher, December 2005).
I don’t mind their opinions. But now that the neoliberal theory of releasing the dynamics of free market ideology has been proven to go through stages of growth, to corruption, to oppression I fail to see why these supposedly smart people are reduced to screeching to for more of the same.
I think psychologically they are a bit like religious nutters who when confronted by evidence that their beliefs are myths simply screech louder.
Its the same with socialists. Despite mountains of evidence that humans are incapable by nature of accepting equal equity for everyone they simply are reduced to saying ‘well, in that example they weren’t doing it right’.
I don’t know how others feel but as someone who is a libertarian who feels that government should only be big enough as it needs to be and no bigger, a socialist in that any nation that refuses to take care of its vulnerable is not civilised and a capitalist in that we need trade to flourish to be able to pay for the aforementioned I am part of the largest and most ignored constituency in national and international politics. And I’m pissed off because all I want is white collar criminals in jail with the others. I want regulation constructed around the understanding that money attracts criminals.
Bollocks to left and right wingers I want to see balance and justice without fear or favour.
Thank you Santa.
I think that is sensible socialism, only achievable through people doing the business for themselves.
Some of you may have seen this article, its worth a read. Krugman is one of the world’s most respected economists and this is what he makes of the irish situation. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opinion/26krugman.html?_r=3&hp
off topic; just a nice song from an old record. too tired for economics, the FT editorial is confused about the whole thing too…i dunno what to make of that. A toast – to getting snowed in and growing a beard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3gtE07Th9o
Dixie, that article is saying exactly what most people on this blog and most people I’ve spoken to have all been saying all along.
So, not wishing to sound paranoid like a certain Mr. Corr, is there something else going on, besides the obvious FF fuckery of ducking and diving?
Thanks, Itchy, there’s always time for a bit of Neil Young!
Lovely!
Of course the gombeen men want the rest of the country signed up to the new Penal Laws. All they have to do then is switch the gombeenism to the new bosses and their lives don’t change much.
All they have to do then is ensure the next crew of inheritors of gombeenism are safely settled in Gonzaga, Blackrock and Belvedere and produce new election posters while waiting for the dumb unwashed to vote them in ‘cos they saw them in the pub or on the telly.
Make no mistake FF and their corrupt practices have sold the rest of the Irish population into a form of modern slavery and they should be treated like the Vichy collaborators in France were treated at the end of the war.
Force them out. At national, regional and local level. They are just scum.
Can we fuck Marian Finucane, and her faux-anger out on her ear too? I don’t know if she’s playing to the crowd or just dozy
Here is her gist this a.m. (say it in a high-pitched faux-angry incredulous pitch of voice)
MF – “WHY ARE WE PAYING MORE THAN GREECE?|”
Fianace bloke who i haven’t caught the name of – “Because th Greeks banking system is not in the state of the irish banks. They only have a budget problem, not a banking problem
MF – “BUT WHY ARE WE PAYING MORE THAN GREECE? IS THIS PUNISHMENT?”
Finance bloke who I haven’t caught the name of – “Eh, I just told you
fade into coughing, spluttering and general shit broadcasting
yesterday afternoon she was interviewing a chef who has opened a restaurant in Dublinand written a book. I came into in the middle of the interview waiting to hear who this dude was and where his restaurant was and she finished the interview with – “Thanks, good luck and now we go to a break”.
this is what I said to myself, out loud – “WHAT THE FUCK? WHO IS HE? WHERE@S THE PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST ENDING WITH
And thank you, ***** **** and good luck with your book, title – Marian Finucane is a fucking coughing, spluttering, unprofessional piece of crap incompetent journalist joke”
Cough into the mic and burst my fucking eardrums, again.
don’t ask Jo. *shakes head*
Don’t ask Jo? What have I got to do with it?!
That NYT article – note that the Icelandic people told their govt to fuck right off when they tried to pass the debt to them – and prosecuted them? And left the debt in the hands of the bankers, din’t accept it. We were told there’d be billions – senseible economists wrote perfectly explanitary articles about it – it was all there -and no one did anything about it. We just slid on down the slope. It’s so weird that that can just happen. We truly are a tiny country, ehere everything is personalised. There’s no public, there’s just family and friends and back scratching.
There’s a fat cow with five tits on X Factor!
Even the Germans have changed their mind about bank bailouts because their Prime Minister is now aware that the major German banks have gambled like fuck and lost on derivatives, CDF’s and shyte sub-prime mortgages through the Dublin IFSC and other regulatory wild-west towns.
Lenihan and Co are have sold the population to the ECB firstly for money to cover up Anglo-Irish fraud involving senior FF’rs and donors.
Lenihan and Co cannot allow the bondholders to have an investigation into the mismanagement of Anglo as it will all come out and FF’rs could go to jail.
So they will tax everyone else and their children to pay the likes of Pimco (worth in excess of $1trillion) and certain tax evaders some of whom are Irish.
I don’t believe FG or Labour will reverse anything or open the books on Anglo. The story will be ‘spilt milk now’ and it will be hushed up the same way Garrett Fitzgerald’s bailout of AIB in the 70′s which the Irish state will be paying for until 2050 was hushed up.
Not many people know the details of that either. Or that they are paying for it in their taxes.
Stories of locked off encrypted documents. Unhelpful and evasive former executives. A political class who know each other from Gonzaga, Blackrock and Belvedere.
We’ll be finding out soon the truth about the little men in the corner of Irish pubs wailing about patriotism through their noses.
*scrambling across the room for the remote to switch to x factor station
read this about iceland yesterday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40379011/ns/world_news-europe/
this country is fucking sick
still no arrests
nothing jo, nothing at all, just last night was, eh…..
apt, new album out soon i think
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYcscdNwhk&feature=fvst
i heard the head-honcho from pimpco captain on bbc radio 4 last week saying he didn’t expect full whack and was pretty dscathing about how ireland was handling the thing. now he may have been talking out of the side of his mouth though he appeared genuine.
bbc are saying chelsea are losing and that australia are confused regarding the cricket performance of england. strange days.
1349: Chelsea captain Didier Drogba gets into a bit of space on the left of the Newcastle box and slams in a fierce shot that Tim Krul tips behind for a corner. At Norwich, Ipswich are in the ascendancy now, buoyed by their leveller.
Ipswich goal: That’s got Keano off the bench
KEANO!
back to that very creepy Turbridy fellow and a song he might sing on The Shit, Shit Show- he who makes my skin crawl the way it crawls when I see Chris de Burgh and Michael Flatley….yuck, get away from me.
How about Lemon by U2?
Hey Twenty did you block anyone from the comment thingy. Anyone being me off course??
You’ll be a long time waiting for FG and Labour to tear up the IMF agreement and default. They are up to their neck in fake Irish politics as much as Fianna Fail.
All they are concerned about is making FF walk the plank with the hairshirt budget and IMF deal so they can walk into government and their turn at the trough.
Have either party said they’ll rip up the deal? Not that I’ve heard of.
Jesus fucking Christ – http://www.politics.ie/economy/144318-has-national-pension-reserve-fund-been-spent-banks-already.html
Nonny – if you’re able to post comments how could you be blocked?
i’m going back to bed. marian finucane probably in rte canteen wondering about her pension and marlboro lights
I see Nonny ‘Braindeath’ is back.One-one at Newcastle, Mikel is having an absolute nightmare ofa game giving the ball away.
Cole is being boo’d because he upset Cheryl Cole. Aw.
She is the queen of newcastle and she got malaria from the jungle swamps which line the banks of the Tyne.
I do hope she’s alright now. I haven’t heard any updates from her bedside for a while… I’ll text John Terry. He’s probably shagged her anyway so he’ll know.
That RTE economics guy Sean Whelan is a spa. All he does to report news is quote the governemnt press secretary. “news” is supposed to be about stuff that people “don’t” want you to know. he really is aclueless robot.
“*dunno how to emphasise italic etc
it’s sad that to get a handle on what might be happening to ireland I find myself visiting loads of sites but not rte. that’s how shit it is
you can’t believe anything these days so my take on the coupe of things is
- the 6.7% rate which Sean Whelan came out with on friday night from his “sources” was a softening up by FF for a 5.5% rate.
- the pension fund story is a softening up by FF to show that it’s not all gone but only some of it is already earmarked for the banks as part of the deal insisted upon by IMF
If the pension fund has already being used by Lenihan as a guarantee to the banks back n back in early this year we are toast. If he has already used that as collateral then all bets are off with regard to human behaviour. It’s a big if. He couldn’t have.
RTE not saying anything, nothing new there, FT not either. goot.
captain,I wouldn’t agree to meet cheryl cole without my body armour. life is difficult enough without having to worry about your personal safety
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3207822.stm
Twenty said: Jesus fucking Christ – http://www.politics.ie/economy/144318-has-national-pension-reserve-fund-been-spent-banks-already.html
Jesus fucking Christ…
http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2010/1128/thisweek.html#
dunno if it’s me or them crank but that link is fucking around my laptop. i will reboot and start press-ups a la taxidriver
Oh dearie dearie me … looks like the petty cash in the National Pension Reserve Fund has gone missing…
First thing any incoming administration must do is get a clean set of accounts and arrest the fraudulent members of the FF administration.
Otherwise they’ll end up being blamed for it by Fianna Fail in a year or so.
Your rugby boys gave them Argies a good kicking, keep up the good work, carry on from where Maggie left off.
Ohh, itchy, you meant don’t ask, Jo! Now I get it.
And of course, now I have to ask. Was it not all you hoped for? :(
I can’t imagine ever dating. The horror.
Google italics html code and you shall see what to do. Tis simple, but it’s hard to show you without italicising everything.
Size Ten- shouldn’t you be attacking Jordan to try to kill the wikileaks founder in order to protect democracy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmaJvkCmjNo
I would just like to wish our new Presidente the very best in his new leadership role.
Viva Twenty! Viva Bastardface, the new Minister for Finance! Viva!
can I have be Minister for Justice?
Still no arrests
shit. i write like bertie ahern speaks
You can have the fucker or be the new one anytime you like Itchy. Either way is fine by me.
I hear the Wikileaks erm, leak, will include;
“The material that we are about to release covers essentially every major issue in every country in the world,” Mr Assange told reporters by video link on Sunday.
A journalist with Britain’s Guardian newspaper, which has been working with Wikileaks on publishing the files, said they would include an unflattering US assessment of UK PM David Cameron.’
yep; i was there earlier; i like the way wiki just blurts it all out with no interpretation
wikileaks down
welcome the the democratic republic of china
wish someone here would leak the anglo and first national loanbook to them
my laptop is acting weird. it takes a bout 20 seconds for what i type to appear on the post….big black van outside my gaff the a team..20 seconds? more like a minute test
We’ll be in in a minute. Put the kettle on. Its going to be a long night.
Sgt Murphy
Cowen still blaming the world
Worthless fucks selling us down the river yet again
methinks after the last fiasco rte will stay with this press conference by these banana republic bollix fucks (and I see the minister who has no qualms about pulling 3 pensions from the state coffers is there at the front) ’til the lights go out
who’s the dude beside cowen who won’t look up?
(cowen licking his lips and waving his armsa lot, a poker player would take a meaning from that tell but we know he’s just wanting a burger and chips with a guinness
lost me posts!
fuck me…he’s talking total shit here
GO NOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54H3EUAzpVg
ff are fucking in 15 billion bucks from the pension reserve. would love to know if it was already thrown in before imf arrived. we are a fucking embarrassment…fuck spelling…
big time lag on my typing and appearing on screen…any ideas?
maybe 1 minute?
weird
otd; watching michael noonon on silent with budgie supplying the narrative is pretyy cool. thanks
he’s still putting 25 billion into the banks? 10 billion plus 15 billion from the pension reserve fund?
still no arrests
sorry, wrong 17.5
12.5 from pension fund and 5 billion from “other state sources”?
oh . here come mr. spoofer. get ready for the softest interview since bertie
i’m going for a pint later.
deffo
Brian Dobson – “I’m not sure if we’ll be able to talk to the mninster for finance, eh, no, we’re having technical dificlties. that’s all for now.”
WHAT? Dobson said he was coming on. I’ve heard soft interviews before but that takes the top prize.
The private banks haven’t had enough public money in order to keep future profits private and to tell the public thanks and fuck off and no you can’t have an overdraft.
The curious thing is that if by some astonishing miracle the Euro stabilises and BOI and AIB burp with all the cash they’ll then try to sell shares in themselves to the Irish public like a kind of nostalgic Eircom privatisation.
Even stranger will be the people going ‘oooh a privatisation. I could make a hundred euros if i bought into that’.
Strange but true.
Just had a mental image of myself getting a titwank off Brian Cowen.
Enjoy your tea.
jesus’ glad me tea is over
In fairness he’s a worker.
Biffo, in his twee litlle speech, said that
we wouldn’t burn the bondholders because there was no political or institutional appetite for that. No shit Brian. Turkeys don’t vote for christmas either.
One in five of them probably votes FF though.
This is game over I fear. This was our last chance to say “Fuck you, we’ll take our chances on our own. See yis in the workhouse”. Instead, we tearfully said “Thank you sir, may I have another?”.
I’m off round the embassies tomorrow to see who’ll have me, but I’ll
never forget whe sent me there. I’ll get my satisfaction from at least
one of those fuckers before I die.
Brian is obviously not at the heart of Europe like the rest of us. Frau Merkel is putting through legislation in the Bundesrat to enable the German government to burn bondholders.
Mostly because she is now aware that German banks are hiding massive losses on derivatives that Germany can’t afford to bail out.
Brian is a liar when he says there is no procedure or precedent for burning bondholders in banks. There is a procedure for it and Washington Mutual in the states has just had its bondholders take a haircut.
It also happened with Parmalat in Europe as recently as 2004.
Brian doesn’t want any bondholders demanding the Anglo books be opened as it would be their right to do if asked to take a haircut.
Brian is a liar.
Which one?
I wish they’d just fucking go.
just fucking go.
Lenihan spinning now on rtenews, looking like he stuck his hair in ultra black for black patent fmb’s.
David Murray, rte interview , final question to the head-honco of the IMF -
“Mr. Chopra, how have you found your time in Ireland and the people you’ve met?”
fucking sesame street
Brian, Brian, pants on fire…
Now we have to pay for those too?
“Mr. Chopra, how have you found your time in Ireland and the people you’ve met?”
No way, on Sesame St they tell it like it is.
mark my words (shaking finger in the air). On Dec 7th Lenihan will announce a 50% wage cut for ministers and the 40% of lazy fucks who vote FF because of the fact that they are lazy fucks will swallow the bile and go vote for the cunts.
ugh.
i know 3 people who vote for ff and they are , eh, not nice. cunts.
time for stout (c)
why is there such a lag between my type and it appearing on the screeen? anyone? stalls/freezes when uplaoding the tye?
Demo at the Dail on budget night. Chance to get it all out of our systems.
Is the van still outside, itchy? Or maybe your wifi is frozen…
Why would TD’s take a pay cut? They only awarded themselves a pay rise recently.
You have to pay top dollar these days to keep people like that out of the private sector.
There’s no knowing what damage they could do to the economy.
no jo. rebooted and turned off everything etc. very weird. ther van is stilkl there. it’s very annoying. takes about 1 min from when i type to when i see it on screen, hence all the typos because i’m reading nothing as i’m writing and not going back to correct becasue it takes another minute to see it…AGHHHHHH
this from earlier. i had a slow day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf5KQ5IMU2c
captain, i’m saying ministers, not tds. betcha.
could be the weather jo, will find out now as i step out into it
Poor Brian. Only another four months to go before he could have had the full Taoiseach pension. He’ll have to make do with TD, Ministerial and perhaps two third Taoiseach pension now.
We should take up a collection. Buy him a Harney as a going away present.
You don’t hear much of a squawk out of Harney or Dermo Aherne these days. Must be all healthy and confident in the judicial system. Dermo is probably working on declaring not going to mass a criminal offence. Handy.
Sank you for signing ze papers. Sehr gut. For you ze sovereignty is over.
Send zose dancey girls mit de vigs and ze legs to my room. Gute nacht.
Two thoughts on Cowen earlier. First, I find it interesting that the money from the pension reserve fund has been earmarked SPECIFICALLY for the banks. Not the general pot of debt, the banks. Makes one believe Pat Rabbite when he says it’s already gone.
Secondly, Cowen going on about Ireland being an honourable nation and “we pay our debts”. Well, cunt, that because you say it’s our debt. Most of the rest of us plebs certainly don’t think it’s our debt. I accrued absolutely no debt in the last ten years. Not for me, not for the wife, not for the kids, me granny, me dead ferret. No one. I played with no ones money but my own. But it’s my debt is it? How do you fucking work that out cunt?
The bailout won’t be put to the Dail according to the pre-recorded interview with Cowen. Or so I’m told.
So effectively FF can arrange an 85billion pound loan to be paid by the citizens and it won’t even be mentioned in the Dail?
Can’t rely on FG or Labour. They WANT FF to put the budget through the Dail. And of course the state is still quietly paying the AIB bailout Garrett Fitzgerald arranged in the 70′s.
About the only hope now is default because Ireland’s economy cannot pay the loans. Even on the official figures.
I’ve loads of fucking debt. Will you all pay it for me? No? How strange. I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t.
No, but I won’t swear at YOU Jo.
I wonder if Brian can work out the reason for that…
when FF say it’s your debt, you know it’s their debt. and you are paying. because they say so. it’s in the national interest. anglo loanbook? we own the bank, we should see the loanbook. and first national. heads have to roll. ff/pd heads.
trevor sargent must read this blog. i’ve implored him on many occasions to pull the plug and it seems, according to a newspaper today, that he did pull the plug.
once more with feeling trevor?
The December 7th protest will be nothing more than a fist shaking exercise after the horse has bolted.
This deal is all but done and dusted. It’ll be signed, sealed and deliverd before the week is out.
Would it be possible for Kenny and Gilmore to go to the park tomorrow and ask the prez to dissolve
the Dail? It’d be a whopper of a longshot I know, but barring an overnight military coup I think we’re doomed to our fate.
We’ve been stitched up BIG TIME.
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/Cablesbyorigin/CablesbyOrigin
i’ve got dublin embassy on the 2nd link but i don’r think you can access the info from hat page>?
hoping to find some american dirt on our greedy corrupt cunts
Gen DeSpair the President and the Council of State are no good as she’s an FF appointee and the Council includes such luminaries as Bertie Ahern and a number of other FF slags.
This guy is seriously well informed about whats been happening at European banks and in the Dublin IFSC.
Its short, easy to understand and he’s come across the same bank and subsidiaries I did but independently and from a different angle.
If anyone wants to know what banks and regulators have been up to this chap can explain it very easily and has done so;
Golem XIV http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/
YOW- take a look at this … this is right at the heart of the Dublin capers. Whistleblower goes live… Irish politicians mentioned
http://whistleblowerirl.blogspot.com/
Sorry to dribble on but I want to put these two links together as its important they get spread around in order to make it harder for politicians to cover up whats been going on in the banking sector in Dublin and elsewhere- and why politicians are running scared of the whole thing;
http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/
Whistleblower IRL
http://whistleblowerirl.blogspot.com/
You’d be doing a favour for citizen journalism over the silence of the Irish MSM if you sent these links to anyone interested in Irish and European banking capers. I’m off to spread it around.
i will check those out later captain; thanks
I was there, froze my nuts off and felt uncomfortable marching along many people who have completely different agenda’s than myself, but a hatred of this current government was universal.
Not sure it had any impact whatsoever, but I’m very pleased I went. If not just for the sense of pride for finally doing atleast something concrete about the situation we’re in.
Did anyone actually watch Turdidy do his impression of a complete wanker in a stupid jumper singing a shit song?
Senor Dingdong
November 29th, 2010 @ 4:40 pm
Did anyone actually watch Turdidy do his impression of a complete wanker in a stupid jumper singing a shit song?not me.
this fucking time lag is fucking annoying. though not as annoying as mary hanafin
Itchy, is it only on this site?