Ah !! The plot thickens ……………..

Charlie Flanagan seems to think that Joan Burton has a ‘deathwish’ What an arrogant ass. She has a sh1t job to do, is trying her best, gives her opinion on the meeting that Reilly, The Bull Hogan and Bruton had with Lowry straight after the Tribunal and then starts bullying Joan Burton.

If I were you Ms. Burton, I’d have nothing to do with these people. Yours and Gilmore’s voice is non existent at the moment. Get it back before you’re put in the same box as them. They will, drag you down with them if you’re not careful.

Just more proof FG hold the people in the same contempt that FF did.The only thing is it took FG one year and it took FF fifteen.

Peter, I’ve emailed Jennifer and asked her if she can find out for us how many “ordinary” TDs sought and were granted meetings with senior Ministers. This would answer many questions this issue.

Great point!!!! Says it all!

Yvonne,
Tommy broughan requested hogan to meet with residents & hogan declined as ‘he has nothing to do with it’. Nice to see that farm waste is more important than family homes that are deemed unsafe for habitation.

Another man who digested the spoofers hand book for Continuity FF

If a TD is found to be corrupt they should be removed from the Dail. The late Liam Lawlor was allowed temporary release from prison to attend the Dail. What does a TD have to do to be fired?

I’d say the list to your last question is endless, Pat -

Nigal you are so right! I don’t understand how any right thinking person could give you a thumbs down for your comment. I guess some people just don’t know how difficult life is in the real world.
To Pat regarding Liam Lawlor, do you recall that on that very day (the day he was released) he was in the line up to shake the hand of Bill Clinton?

Martin, do you have a link to this story? How was this reported? First time I’ve heard this and would like to know if this is true. Thanks.

@Joe Roddy,

Sadly, there are some “thick Irish” around us. It’s up to us to show them the truth, honesty, respect for others.

David seriouly do you not see a problem with any of this?Btw opposition/independent TDs rarely get such access to a sitting minister.

The problem being people like you, who condone this blatant cronyism David!

The problem being that they are not his constituents and their business is located in a different constituency. This was Lowry using his political connections to support his business friends. That’s not why politicians are elected, or have we learned nothing? The problem being that some people never let the facts get in the way of blind loyalty.

That’ll be you in ten years David, taking bungs from big business, sucking up to Lowry et al,. Admit it, you’re doing it for the money and you couldn’t give a toss about the working people of this country. How many of your relatives are FG members?

@Martin All my Dad’s side of the family are Fianna Fail, my uncle still an active member. Not a single member of my extended family had anything to do with Fine Gael when I joined.

The course I’m currently studying in college (MSISS in Trinity) leads most graduates into highly paid employment with earning potential much greater than that of a politician so NO I’m not in it for the money. I’m not even “in it”. I’m a member of a party, not a politician.

@Padraig The meetings were about saving jobs in Lowry’s constituency and another about a nursing home. You can’t talk about blind loyalty when it was Fine Gael who kicked out Lowry when we found out what he was up to!

FF/FG two sides of the one coin. You condemn yourself.

The problem is Lowrey was subject to adverse findings let him make his submissions in writing!!
More wind and piss being spouted by the heroes of Continuity FF.
What minister has he not met

@David, where did you see the information saying that the jobs were in Lowry’s constituency? Because that actually contradicts the company’s own website (www.filmco.ie). The jobs are in Carrick-on-Suir, in SOUTH Tipperary, not NORTH Tipperary, which is Lowry’s constituency. According to the Independent, the connection with Lowry is a business one, via his PR company.

Do you think it is a credit to Fine Gael that they “kicked out Lowry when we found out what he was up to”? FF, Labor or Sinn Fein couldn’t exactly kick him out, could they? He was your party member and representative when he swore an oath on taking up a Ministerial office that your party gave him. He used it to feather his own nest and your party had to do something when it went public. However, your party has clearly treated him as a member on leave, right up to the meeting with Hogan and O’Reilly. You will lose any remaining credibility if you persist in trying to portray this as anything other than rotten.

Congrats on the big future earnings by the way. I hope it stays fine for you.

@David: I wonder did you ever hear this quote:

Show me a young Conservative and I’ll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains.

WIinston Churchill I believe, but it’s always made sense to me. You should be doing better things with your youth and college years.

North and South Tipperary are likely to merge after the next boundary view.

Yes, get rid of trade unions. The only protection workers have from unscropulous employers. The same sort of employers who conspire with Lowry and his crew to break the law. Vote no on the treaty but at least do it for a proper reason.

Yes Martin; Unions are why I can’t get into my office before 9 and have to be gone by 5! Unions are why my managers are over paid and can’t use a fockin crack berry and get confused about spreadsheets! No sorry that was Croke park, eh no Unions again! Union leaders drive 2012 cars but hey they are socialists chopping in to help out car dealers! So while I try to get services for young people with mental health difficulties, Unions create a work place where lines of demarcation between professionals are held steadfast while a room of approx €600,000 of wages talk shite with no resolution for the client! Unions had their day! protecting wages from who? If your productive, have a sound business plan with clear outcomes everyone works together! Unions are the monkeys on out back that compensate for the wasters in the job!

Hear hear, we should have also voted against the judges pay referendum too. Express our anger at these good for nothings! :)

And that Children’s Rights referendum – let’s really get at their brass necks. Vote NO for that too. After all, it’s only politicians that suffer from referendum defeats, not children. It’s just a smokescreen I tell ya!

Replace every use of the word union in your paragraph with “union officials”. I think you’re seriously confused about what a trade union is. They’re not perfect, they’re corrupt, their members are apathetic. But they’re the only thing standing between us and no minimum wage, a total removal of all the rights workers have fought for the last 150 years. Reform the unions, getting rid of them would be undemocratic and regressive.

@Declan, yes nothing to see hear here folks business as usual isn’t that right.

@Declan Cotter

You just don’t get it Declan, you choose not to read and take in the other complaints/worries that these people, including me have brought up on this thread, including the fact that Dr. O’Reilly has nothing to say to Kenny/Lowry of his distaste of Lowry’s lies etc. The fact that he doesn’t make a statement about the whole thing shows that he agrees with what Lowry did.

I would have so much respect for him if he just stated his feelings to Kenny (maybe he has) and to the electorate that he condones what Lowry and the rest of the snakes did.

@Declan: you got very irate about being called a “gombeen” but you’re happy to insult an entire nation?

For the record, there’s no evidence that Noonan or Reilly are corrupt. However, if they turn a blind eye to corruption in their party they are just as guilty as those who are actively corrupt. This Lowry/Hogan thing is worrying as it’s evidence that the practices highlighted in recent corruption tribunals are continuing. They have chosen to defend this!

Yes Declan. Do you also believe in other fairytales?

Dennis, It’s because of gombeens like you that we have the likes of Lowry in the Dail in the first place.

Censored….I do not believe for 1 second that Minister Reily or Noonan or corrupt… Thats not a fairytale..

Ed, If i am assume in the wrong that you are refering to me as a ‘gombeem’, i apologise… If not…Dont ever call me names on this site….full stop.