Stradivarius O'Donoghue is back!!!

Raiser

The King of the fiddle is back - although you may not have heard?

No fanfare?

No press conference?

No gold-plated Limousines........ (Not yet anyway?)

- Its almost as if Fianna Fail aren't keen on advertising their encourgement of obscene opportunistic excess and the Greens are just they way they like it - bound, lubed and gagged.

Irish Times Article here.

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Irish Times Article wrote:

FORMER Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue has returned to active parliamentary politics after becoming a member of two Dail committees.

He is replacing his successor as Ceann Comhairle, Seamus Kirk, on the Oireachtas Committee on Economic Regulatory Affairs, which could be asked to take a role in the forthcoming banking inquiry.

Mr O'Donoghue is also replacing Green Party TD Ciaran Cuffe on the Oireachtas Environment Committee.

If I could pick the the Person least suited to taking part in our Governments Sham Banking Enquiry it would probably be a close call between an exhumed Al Capone and the Fresh Prince of Cahirciveen - Jonny "Bling Bling" O.D.

Atlantic Dawn

It's great to see him back, not :mad:

MikeC101

Raiser wrote: »

Stradivarius O'Donoghue

The King of the fiddle is back

Fresh Prince of Cahirciveen - Jonny "Bling Bling" O.D.

I must say you have a wonderful turn of phrase

Managed to make me smile, despite the utterly depressing thought of J.O.D. possibly being involved in the banking inquiry.

jumpin_macflash

it think its gas that theres no member of the greens now on the environment committee. completely different party in and out of government it seems.

as for o' donoghue, it just further shows what we have for a government and it disgusts me.

Red_Marauder

Can this really be happening?

Someone is putting him on a committee with the words "economic regulation" in the title?

Irish politics never ceases to amaze.

AlekSmart

Someone is putting him on a committee with the words "economic regulation" in the title?

Can this really be happening?

Oh it`s happening alright and in a very calculating manner too.

Essentially our Taoiseach,Mr Cowen is saying a loud FCUXK YOU !!! to the rest of the citizenry.

You (the people) are not going to tell ME how to run my country and if I wish to promote seedy types to positions of oversight then I shaggin well will !!!

With each passing day the "Last hours of the Ceaucaescu`s " Video becomes ever more relevant to the current scenario in Ireland. :mad:

funnyname

hey he's the least appropriate politician to have back but that's FF: their moto is look after their own!

Liam Byrne

OK. It's now 100% official.

FF are doing everything in their power to piss us off as much as possible so that we'll revolt and kick them out and they won't have to clean up the mess that they've created.

After the above news, there is no other explanation.

And I presume that the opposition have absolutely no say in the matter ?

I am going to store every ounce of excrement that leaves my body from now until the election, and dump it over the head of anyone from FF who has the gall to trespass on my land.

Seth Brundle

jumpin_macflash wrote: »

it think its gas that theres no member of the greens now on the environment committee. completely different party in and out of government it seems.

The "green" used to refer to the environment. Now it refers to the colour of money!

jumpin_macflash wrote: »

as for o' donoghue, it just further shows what we have for a government and it disgusts me.

And it won't be their last disgusting act. This is FF and so is completely acceptable (given that we will not make them stop)!

bmaxi

Ah come on FFS be fair, didn't he lose the Ceann Comhairle's job. Jayz, a fella has to make a crust somehow.
Have ye forgotten how difficult, as Pee Flynn told us, it is to manage on the meagre pickings a TD receives.
Personally, I think this is a master stroke by Cowen, set a thief to catch a thief.

Seth Brundle

bmaxi wrote: »

Personally, I think this is a master stroke by Cowen, set a thief to catch a thief.

or maybe it was because there is honour amongst thieves! I don't believe that they want any thieves to be caught (how many have been caught so far?)

By appointing JOD into a post such as this is effectively giving the two fingers to the public and will reinforce the view held by many that the only ambition of current government policy is to protect FF friends and feck the public!

thebman

kbannon wrote: »

or maybe it was because there is honour amongst thieves! I don't believe that they want any thieves to be caught (how many have been caught so far?)

By appointing JOD into a post such as this is effectively giving the two fingers to the public and will reinforce the view held by many that the only ambition of current government policy is to protect FF friends and feck the public!

I'd hope he was being sarcastic :P

But your point still stands.

Eutow

Liam Byrne wrote: »

OK. It's now 100% official.

FF are doing everything in their power to piss us off as much as possible so that we'll revolt and kick them out and they won't have to clean up the mess that they've created.

After the above news, there is no other explanation.

And I presume that the opposition have absolutely no say in the matter ?

I am going to store every ounce of excrement that leaves my body from now until the election, and dump it over the head of anyone from FF who has the gall to trespass on my land.

I don't know if your are being sarcastic, but FF know how gullible, stupid, and forgetful, (or maybe just naive) a lot of the electorate are. They know they can get away with almost anything because there will still be at least 21 % voting for them no matter what they do. Just look at the Red C Poll today. Their support has gone up by 4%, despite the oh so many examples of incompetence, arrogance, lack of leadership, pass the buck mentality, bailing out banking criminals, and the f**k y** attitude to the citizens of this country etc. They could shoot dead 1,000 people tomorrow and there would still be people voting for them. Those supporters would say, "Ah sure the opposition would have killed 2,000 people". The utter stupidity of the Irish electorate pi$$es me off no end. Why do we bother with elections anymore and the associated expenses of running them? Because FF will always win.:mad::mad:

Red_Marauder

kbannon wrote: »

By appointing JOD into a post such as this is effectively giving the two fingers to the public and will reinforce the view held by many that the only ambition of current government policy is to protect FF friends and feck the public!

Bet this appointment doesn't cost the Government a single seat come next election though, not even John O'Donoghue's seat...

This says more about the Irish electorate than it does about FF imo

bmaxi

thebman wrote: »

I'd hope he was being sarcastic :P

Just a little bit.
JOD is a reformed character, sure we have it from his own mouth. :rolleyes:

poochiem

he has enough neck for two heads

jmayo

Raiser wrote: »

- Its almost as if Fianna Fail aren't keen on advertising their encourgement of obscene opportunistic excess and the Greens are just they way they like it - bound, lubed and gagged.

If I could pick the the Person least suited to taking part in our Governments Sham Banking Enquiry it would probably be a close call between an exhumed Al Capone and the Fresh Prince of Cahirciveen - Jonny "Bling Bling" O.D.

Wonderful turn of phrase there

However, I will disagree that the greens are gagged.
If anything they have become the noutpieces for the government.
Any bad news over the last while and out trots gormless.

Red_Marauder wrote: »

Can this really be happening?

Someone is putting him on a committee with the words "economic regulation" in the title?

Irish politics never ceases to amaze.

It is not Irish politics it is ff and nothing they do now amazes me.

Only thing they would do that would now amaze me is if one of them resigned, you know without being dragged kicking and screaming from their office.

AlekSmart wrote: »

Oh it`s happening alright and in a very calculating manner too.

Essentially our Taoiseach,Mr Cowen is saying a loud FCUXK YOU !!! to the rest of the citizenry.

You (the people) are not going to tell ME how to run my country and if I wish to promote seedy types to positions of oversight then I shaggin well will !!!

With each passing day the "Last hours of the Ceaucaescu`s " Video becomes ever more relevant to the current scenario in Ireland. :mad:

At last someone thinking the same as me.
Of course I have to say it woudl be hard to shove all the fat ars*d ministers into armoured cars. :rolleyes:

BTW how much does committe membership bring with it?
€20,000 or is that just for the chairman ?

Liam Byrne

Why isn't this receiving more prominent coverage in the media ?

yop

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Why isn't this receiving more prominent coverage in the media ?

Because its Ireland and we are now so used to been screwed over and over that it no longer makes news

Its a bit like murders, they were 1 ever few months, now they are daily people become normalized by it.

Bit like AIB appointing a whole loads of new heads to oversee the departments of irrelevant tasks, I wonder are these all new departments???

Nothing has changed in this country and as said the donkey o'D's new jobs is 2 fingers from our "leader" . :rolleyes:

bmaxi

His constituents have said they will re-elect him no matter what so Cowen has no problem about where he appoints him, is it any wonder we have Kerryman jokes?

Dionysus

This is either:

A) A huge two fingers to the public from Cowen and company which should be publicised much more

or

Recognition that this O'Donoghue guy knows where the bodies are buried in terms of corruption by present Fianna Fáil ministers.

The article doesn't say who appointed him. I think we should know.

Liam Byrne

Dionysus wrote: »

The article doesn't say who appointed him. I think we should know.

Absolutely we should know! I'm almost tempted to email FF and ask, only they'd probably put me on their deluded self-congratulatory SPAM list again.

yop

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Absolutely we should know! I'm almost tempted to email FF and ask, only they'd probably put me on their deluded self-congratulatory SPAM list again.

I dont think you will get an answer though!! fk disgrace

Shea O'Meara

Seems misappropriation of expense funds in the U.K., where even the accusation warrants a resignation, can also carry up to a seven year prison term....if only

http://news.eircom.net/breakingnews/17244380/?view=Standard

simonj

Look, until we have a change of system - get used to gombeen politics.

People who dont get elected - from all parties - e.g. Boyle, De Burca, Auntie Mary get appointed to the Senate by the likes of Bertie.

By ensuring parish pump party politics FF & FG - two cheeks of the one arse -we will continue to have people like Frank Fahy, JH Rae & Sons, O Donahue, stroke fahy and others of their ilk determining how the country is run.

We need a modified list system to get out of this 90 year perpetuation of a two party system, that means electoral reform, accountability and a party on the Island that will listen and be answerable outside election time.



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