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Should the Taoiseach resign?

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    #92
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    is the bertiegate video available anywhere - the one with Brian dobson?


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    #93
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Red Alert wrote:
    is the bertiegate video available anywhere - the one with Brian dobson?

    Find the date it was broadcast and look on the RTÉ news archives.

    @Jean Dwyer - your post insults everyone in this country, I hope you get banned.


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    #94
    SeanW
    Registered Users Posts: 8,830 ✭✭✭SeanW


    sdonn_1 wrote:
    @Jean Dwyer - your post insults everyone in this country, I hope you get banned.
    No, they only insult FF voters.

    As a person who intends to vote for everyone-but-FF in sequential order of nonalignment with them, I think its a fairly accurate description.

    To give my final answer to the OPs question should Bertie resign over this single incident (with the Dail already dissolved so it wouldn't make much difference), I say no he shouldn't resign, we should **** him and his clowns out the door on the 24th.

    In the interim we should put this matter to the Tribunals so that the opposition can focus on actual issues instead of constant headlines about Berties house, which as Enda Kenny rightly pointed out, most people were sick and tired of.

    I don't think this stuff is benefitting the alternative coalition, so quite frankly, I'd have to ask who it IS benefitting?


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    #95
    stepbar
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    sdonn_1 wrote:
    @Jean Dwyer - your post insults everyone in this country, I hope you get banned.

    They're a sensitive bunch alright, the FF'ers that is.....


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    #96
    Jean Dwyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭Jean Dwyer


    sdonn_1 wrote:

    @Jean Dwyer - your post insults everyone in this country, I hope you get banned.
    Why because Bertie shafting the Irish people ???
    The only reasons you'd be insulted is because you firstly have no sense of humour and secondly you are jealous he didn't give it to you personally.
    Man I hate stupid people.
    Of course the stupid people of Dublin central will vote him in again.
    One day this country will wake up and realise that they are better than the crap we are force fed and have to persevere with.


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    #97
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,772 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    I heard something today on newstalk about how Bertie withheld a file (relating to Harry Wheelehan & Brendan Smith) from Albert which was a reason why Albert couldn't explain himself. Or something to that effect.
    Did anyone hear more about this? I can't find anything online.


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    #98
    gandalf
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    You mean this one http://www.newstalk.ie/news.aspx?id=37209
    9/05/2007 19:09:33

    Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds claims Bertie Ahern withheld a key file from him relating to the extradition of paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smith - a controversy which ultimately led to his downfall. In 1994, Mr Reynolds was forced to resign as Taoiseach after his Attorney General Harry Whelahan mishandled an attempt to extradite Fr Smith. Speaking to Newstalk earlier, Albert Reynolds said that if he had got that file - which he claims was in Bertie Ahern's posession - then he could have clarified the situation and remained in office. Speaking to Newstalk eariler, the only proof of his honesty was contained in a report on Fr. Smith that Bertie never gave him.

    So if this is true Bertie only became leader of FF and thus Taoiseach by shafting his former boss, more character development. Gives more strength to the argument that someone in FF is behind the leaks out for revenge.


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    #99
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,772 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Cheers.
    Strange of Albert to help the opposition at this time.
    However, nothing has been made of it!


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    #100
    stepbar
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    I'll hand one thing to Bertie - he has a quare thick neck on him..... Christ, Ivor only got the house painted FFS :D


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    #101
    RainyDay
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    SeanW wrote:
    I'm not so sure. I thought you had to cross a cheque to make it cashable by the payee only, but add "A/C Payee Only" between the cross lines to add the extra protection of forcing it to be put into the payees account.
    Do you really think that the Dept of Finance (of all people) don't know how to properly cross a cheque?


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