Wonder how much of his re- election was down to the sympathy vote given his well publicised illness, sorry if that sounds a little harsh but he did just scrape in and lets face it, very few would have been impressed by his handling of the economic crisis (except Steaphen Kearon that is) Martin is right to make sure Conor Lenihan is kept well away from this by-election as he would certainly cost them and anyway it will be miracle if they (FF) win it in any case!

Look at how Brian and Conor dumped on their father after the Haughey debacle. How many men would turn a blind eye to that. What price a cabinet seat?. It says all you need to know about them. The Lenihans have a dynastic approach to political hopping and personal advancement.

That’s true, Joan. Nepotism should never come in to it. I think it ought to be all about ability. Not a big fan of Conor L. Personally, I think he’s a bit of a clown. Time to bring in new blood.

Sadly Joan, nepotism is alive and well and residing in most councils, the Seanad and the Dail. You’ve only got to look at the likes of Healy-Rae, Cowen and quite a few more to see that!

Time to dump all the Russian IT stocks in my portfolio so.

@Daniel. Why don’t you run for the by-election seat yourself Dan? I think you’ve done enough spouting and pucking in your various post here, there and everywhere onThe Journal to warrant a go for FG. It’s what we need really, another gasbag in a gilded position….you’d even turn Enda off FG!

@ RP McMurphy hate on me all you want buddy!

In most other countries Brian would have faced the noose for what he did. His illness saved him from being brought to justice.

That’s true. All u have to do is look at him.

disgusting, disgraceful and inaccurate comment. Brian Lenihan did more for this country in an hour than the likes of you would ever do in a lifetime

That’s true Stephen. I doubt Glenn will ever take a decision that turns one of the richest country’s in the developed world into an economic basket case sentenced to decades of debt servitude virtually overnight. Only Lenihan was able to manage that. I’ve no doubt he was a good, decent man, but he fucked the country right and proper.

But Glenn – you really REALLY should amend that comment, unless you want to be seen as actively celebrating someone’s death.

I have to say, the whole “it was the bank guarantee ruined the country!” train of thought is starting to sound a lot like “it was Lehmans!” Not saying it was a successful policy or anything, but our economy was a basket case long before Lenihan tried to fix it all at a stroke.

Brian Lenihan is dead (and I wont say a bad word about the dead!) but unfortunately for all of us the policy he made while alive has ruined out little country.There are no qualms about it.Its a terrible reality we all must live with!

Conor Lenihan is a piece of shit and would be laughed out of that constituency if he asked for their vote.The man makes my skin crawl.The sooner all of FF is eliminated from the political scene the better, the deserve nothing less.Amen.

@Stephen Kearon………if anything is a disgrace its the fact you openly admit on your twitter that you were a special adviser to Dick Roche in 2006-2007 and that your a Pro FF councillor……So can we blame you for advising him on the Hill of Tara Motorway debacle? and the millions of other fuck ups he made?You are one of those despicable FF lackeys that I detest…….

“Brian Lenihan did more for this country in an hour than the likes of you would ever do in a lifetime”
Ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, hilarious! You couldn’t make it up! What Lenihan did for Ireland was to bankrupt it, his insane economic policies and his banking guarantee will go down in history as some of the worst decisions ever made in the history of the state indeed Europe and the world. As for his gombeen brother, the people already rejected this loser once already just like the people of Wicklow rejected the loser you ‘advised’ Roche, and with his childish reaction to losing his seat still fresh in the minds of many maybe you should keep your advice to yourself. The nepotists in Fianna Failure don’t seem to see that Dail seats are not hand me downs for certain political dynasties, thankfully Irish people in the more enlightened counties seem to have moved beyond the feudal monarchical style parish pump and gombeen politics epitomised by the likes of the Healy-Rae mob, get with the programme Stephen and stop making an ass of yourself!

Well said Glenn. His brother and father were gangsters and played a very large part in destroying this country. Conor should spend the rest of his life trying to make up for their sins. I surprised that he did not try to piggyback on his families loss back in to a seat. Maybe he has found God.

On a lighter note, maybe he is worried that “3 is a charm”. That const. has a record in dealing with Lenihans.