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Another story regarding an upstanding public "servant"

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  • 21-09-2009 8:29pm
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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭


    Well you have to laugh. Ivor Calley and his yacht. You can listen to the story recounted here, click the 4.30-5.00 pm slot and ff to 13.00.

    Yacht, a Baltimore holliday home and a companion. How the other half live eh?

    Story was in the Mail on Sunday yesterday.

    Oh yeah


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    Mena
    Registered Users Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    I don't get it...? So he has a yacht and a holiday home... so what?

    Note, the above may make me look like an ass as I've not listed to the audio :P


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    NewDubliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭NewDubliner


    Mena wrote: »
    I don't get it...? So he has a yacht and a holiday home... so what?
    And he's a member of FF and was appointed a senator, having failed to hold his Dáil seat & embarrased his party with a 'pick me up' controversary.
    "I am very much aware of the difficulties that people face in the current economic and financial climate."
    Yeah right.


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,846 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Maybe thats where the 92k in expenses went.
    http://www.herald.ie/national-news/senators-pocket-an-average-of-836494k-in-expenses-on-top-of-their-836470k-salaries-1874625.html


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    anonymous_joe
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Well you have to laugh. Ivor Calley and his yacht. You can listen to the story recounted here, click the 4.30-5.00 pm slot and ff to 13.00.

    Yacht, a Baltimore holliday home and a companion. How the other half live eh?

    Story was in the Mail on Sunday yesterday.

    Oh yeah

    Politician anywhere in corruption shocker.


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    Overheal
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    guys leave him alone. its hard work mismanaging a whole country. the stress is killer. he needs a bit of Ivor Time.


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    Sizzler
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    Heard this yesterday, almost beggars belief then it dawns on you hes a politician and it all becomes rather predictable.


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    bmaxi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    A FF politician playing fast and loose with someone else's possessions, what else is new?


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