Your right Norman sounds like Declan thinks he works for the CIA.When he profiles him and hands it to the authorities that poor man will never work again..HEIL KENNY HEIL FINE GAEL yere all nutters

Nicky McFadden is the rudest person I have ever met and her language is a language that is not taught in our homes or schools…..

hes not fit to be our leader. the guy would lose an argument with himself.

I think he’s been listening to Michael Noonan, the people emmigrating and the lack of jobs is COMPLETELY unrelated….

€200,000 plus expenses Mary.

Enda is a prize gold medal standard at destroying and obliterating a very hard working nation at destroying families tearing them apart. Prized TRAITOR SELLING OUT HIS OWN PEOPLE
How dare he speak to anyone as he did in Golden Island Athlone yesterday. Get out now Kenny and stay out

And who would you have replace him? And why do you think the next govt will have an easier time of it? FF left this country with NO options. No government for the next 10 years will be able to do any different

Stadler Waldorf
What difference does it make to Enda’s ignorant comments who replaces him. He should not have made those comments . My God he is a plank.

One of the key reasons for FG never having been re-elected to Govt. is that they manage to pee off floating voters bit by bit, with their arrogance and disdain for the little guy. It piles up over the term.

I’m surprised he didn’t try to charm the crowd with one if his n**ger jokes. Vote No!

We can and will fire him in the next general election hopefully….

@Andrea Can we wait that long considering the damage he personally has caused in 15 months of taking office

I don’t think we have a choice there unfortunately Bernadette

I Know Andrea but we will do our best

Ha ha ha ha ha very good!!!!

And we all agree that is and all his ilk

Sheila, i hope at this stage, you are considering coming over to the Dark Side ;) I never voted SF prior to the last election, but we can see what a shower of self-serving bastards we have in power continually since the 1970’s… How many tribunals… FFg decided last week not to reprimand one of their own TDs even though we just spent 300million euro digging up the truth. How much more can a sane person take, before you realise that we need something different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Politics by FG LB FF etc is mad in this country it’s all about (in this order) 1-parish pump politics first (keep locals happy) 2- then keep the Germans happy, 3- then keep the backbenchers appeased, 4- Make sure the local councils aren’t causing trouble with your parish pump and lastly 5- look after Ireland’s intreats (only if the Germans say so)

Soon as they find the 5 point jobs plan.

They lost the list of their 5point plan on the way to the Dâil to take office and they have forgotten in which order it was Abd this us they way they are doing it from their memory
1) screw the people if Ireland
2( Screw them some more
3) sure why not screw them a third time 4) by now lads we have screwed the people enough on their income let’s charge them for water yea sure it’s a gift from heaven Yea why not put meters on the water
5)By now we have achieved all this the people of Ireland have realised that we the Fine Gael and Labour Parties are finished in Ireland Jesus help us what can we do???? I know say Kenny “we will just abuse them instead when we meet them on walk abouts such as Golden Island Shopping Centre Athlone”

B7584

you left out one of his other faults – racism.

Meet the electorate every day and run the country too ? You’re delirious..

@reada, so by your logic people who can afford the household charge shouldn’t pay it to stand up for people who can’t?? Would it not be a better suggestion that people who can afford it (which im guessing is 80% of those who havent paid) pay and local councils use this money to help the people who really need it??

@finnian – he spends so much of his time spouting rubbish, perhaps he could reorganise and restructure his working day to allow for a daily forum with the people. It need be no more than half an hour. Marches, protests etc have been more or less ignored. It would be great to have an opportunity to mainline the message!

@Finnian this Government are neither meeting or listening to the People if Ireland Nor are they running the Country They are Ruining the country Enda Kenny and Company get lost somewhere between FRANCE and GERMANY

Were they chanting that Graham ??

Hear hear!
He hasn’t a clue how to interact with people! Yesterday is a top class example as to why he won’t go on to the Vincent Browne show for a live debate! He can’t think on his feet and he knows that VB would wipe the floor with him

Outrageously condescending put down and insulting remark from any Human Being neither mind that he is the elected Taoiseach of the Country!
Are these the highest standards of Office that this man can attain ?
Resign Enda , you should be ashamed of yourself !
I certainly am ashamed of you and your Coalition and your arrogance – & we thought that the FF led government set a low standard – but you have even lowered it further with your actions !

“Psychosis is a symptom or feature of mental illness typically characterized by radical changes in personality, impaired functioning, and a distorted or nonexistent sense of objective reality.”
There you have it folks our Great and glorious leader is Psycotic. Not realy news I know.

What was he expecting when out campaigning. His attitude towards this man is equal to his attitude towards the people of this island. ” pay up and shut up”. Zero empathy, zero personality. I particularly like the way he cynically grabs the boy at the start of the video to get a promo thumbs up photo with him. Sickening.

Yea that smarmy face is so pathetic for a man of his age he us acting like a school boy bully.And he should resign but he will not A decent person would put their hands up and say Got it wrong And there is a better person for the Job he would also realise there are 4.5million people he is destroying in his wake and we the Joe Bloggs will never forget or forgive him for destroying and giving our country over to Germany/ France He has forgotten what our forefathers went trough and he has pulled to shreds in a few short months

I;m sure he could do with a days work ,Well so could half the country. Where are the jobs Enda? Oh thats right there arnt any because you stoped any money circulating in the economy.

XFACTOR electorate

Emmie
They lied and lied and still they lied

Every article regarding Enda seems like a sketch from the savage eye.

Very good
Thanks Paula

how can i share this

That is an awfully inadequate poem. Carlow Poet PJ Brennan should focus on finding another word that rhymes with ‘yours’ instead of spewing ignorant subjective sentiment and implying that it is wisdom. To call this ‘The Emmigrant’ is an insult to the true history of emmigration.

To anyone who thinks this poem is worthy of the word, get an education in economics and the English language.

Thanks for the poem.

Wonderful poem, captures the story of emigration perfectly. It touched my heart. Well done PJ Brennan from Carlow

I have posted that poem on my Facebook and Twitter accounts. It deserves to seen by a wi audience. I hope the poet doesn’t object to that. I, too, am voting and canvassing widely for a Níl vote.

Why all the red thumbs….

Benjamin, why so serious. This poem captures the sentiment of the nation. It may be simply written but is that not the beauty of it. I’m puzzled by your comment on economics?

The word ‘yours’ is a refrain, Benjamin. Rhyme doesn’t always have to go with reason.

Sounds like PJ Brennan could do with a days work too if it’d stop him writing poems. What an awful piece. Just because a piece is topical doesn’t make it good.

Wonderful poem!!! Ignore the negativity, what can we expect? A lot here are upset with how their hero Enda has spectacularly showed his true colors in this video. They hope he is never allowed speak in puboic without a scrip, but when he does….they have no retort. I will be sharing this poem with all my friends, thank you PJ Brennan from Carlow and to Paula for sharing it.

“No bankers, developers or politicians kin
Are queuing next to to yours”

So true

P.S I will be voting No and almost everyone I know will be voting NO.

Actually, the worst of the bankers HAVE gone, (David Drumm for example) to escape the wrath of the Irish people.
When are we going to see that arsehole and his fellow arseholes thrown in jail for his arseholery

@Angela So if people who don’t like the poem must be FG supporters, it must also be true therefor that socialists like bad poetry!

Anyone disagreeing with you isn’t necessarily an FG/Lab supporter. If a poem is crap, it’s crap for the reason that it’s a crap poem.

What a strange reaction Noel…Are you jealous or something?

I personally know that man who Enda Kenny made that disgraceful comment to, he is a very hard working and self employed person for years and for the leader of this country to make a comment like that is a disgrace and he should come out and say sorry for doing so !!!

The majority of these comments are plain bonkers. @Angela: You reveal your completely warped logic in the sentence “their hero Enda has spectacularly showed his true colors in this video”. In the context of what you’re talking about this is random sensationalist nonsense. That context, by the way, is a the leader of a country’s government and economy being accused directly by an single old man who is unhappy with his personal circumstances. However representative his case may be the reality is that emmigration as been a complex and fundamental part of our national identity since the year of dot and instead of being seen as a great tragedy should be noted for the influencial global diaspora, reputation and respect it has earned our small island. Lamenting a logical social norm such as emmigration just because your child has to temporarily leave to work abroad is a selfish and misleading tendency , and is ultimately used in this case as a tool to criticise a political figure for lack of more concrete reasons.

Although I suppose, God forbid the youth of Ireland should go abroad to work, to learn about other cultures, act as embassadors for Ireland, and build prosperous lives.

But then, why am I arguing with you, who’ll simply retreat from anything she doesn’t understand and seek refuge in repetitive populist stupidity. You wanted a retort? There’s your retort you ignorant twit.

So upset about a poem Benjamin? Scary guy :(

Benjamin Guy Saunders

Just because your parents dont give a shite about you leaving the country to work in France, dont assume that every Irish parent is glad to see the back of their child.

Best to let Cotter play secret agents.

I’d say it might be an idea for the man in question to make sure that he locks his doors and windows when he leaves the house.

Benjamin Guy Saunders, what a very unhappy angry confused young man. Looking at your Facebook page, it seems the few friends you have ignore your rants also. Still waiting for an intelligent retort, a long winded waffling rant doesn’t quite suffice. France is welcome to you, oh, and, you, might, want, to, study, comma, usage. When you are backed into a corner and have to angrily insult people, you have lost :)

First of all: What on Earth are you talking about in terms of my facebook page? Are you assuming people will take your word for it and not look for themselves? In which case I suppose the hoped for result would be more green thumbs.

SecondIy, I cannot seem to post my retort for whatever reason but rest assured one does exist. Either way I apologise for calling you a twit, it was admitedly too much. But thank you for correcting my grammar, which I actually think is rather good.

To say that “France is welcome to” me, or to assume that I’m unhappy and confused because I disagree with you is very silly. As it is to assume the same because I don’t use the comma as you would see fit. Speaking of angrily insulting people, what do you think you are doing in your comment? I suppose you’ll point out that I started it, surely an apt defense. One suggestion I would make is that you try to see past your evident dislike of who I am (since you seem to be an expert) and read objectively the content of my “waffling rant”.

As for you @Ann: There is a difference between my parents respecting me as an adult and being glad to see the back of me. My mother surely misses me but she’s intelligent enough to understand the benefit to my life of this perfectly normal thing to be doing at my age. I made no allusions to my or any parents being happy on a personal basis to see their children go to work abroad, I simply said it’s not the great tragedy it once was. The argument that emmigration spells the economic death of a country is a relic and holds no water in 2012. Modern global transport and communications technology make this the case.

Shhhhh relax little man, it’s only a poem. The audacity of you attempting to correct the poets grammar when your own literary prowess falls way behind. You are way out of your intellectual depth here Ben, perhaps you should keep your immature insults and rants for the pub. You bore me, bye :-)

Ha Ha Ha.
A politician/civil service ”lifer” telling a hardworking self employed person
‘You could do with a day’s work, I’d say’
all from the protection of his sheltered, taxpayer funded Ivory Tower.

Ochón, Ochón, when Enda was in Athlone
He was nearly in the west
but when told to go home
he lost his cool
and proved that he’s a proper T@@L

Art is subjective, no need to get so bent out of shape over this one people. :-D

kinda missing the point !!

I don’t think anybody is forgetting what FF did. The point is that Enda and co made all sorts of ridiculous promises in the run up to the general election and has practically broken every one of them. He also said that taxing a person’s home was criminal and now he’s trying to do just that. To say to a man that he could do with a day’s work when there is mass unemployment is not only insulting and cruel, but it also shows just how far removed the man is from the realities facing his fellow countrymen. He really doesn’t care about what’s happening here, he is well paid and cares about nothing else. I will never vote FG/Labour again….

so you are gona vote again for FF who, after feathering their own nests and screwing us over since the early Haughey era, are gona turn the country around next time. They are the crowd who brought us to our knees begging to Europe.

No Michael, I am not going to vote for FF, where did I say that?

just dont believe there promises during election time especially when either them or f.f spew out the same shite everytime its not like we havent been warned down through the years a government should not be in power because the they have a stereotypical promise campaign 3wks before an election ..this is not xfactor this is our livelyhood and futures thats at stake..Start thinking outside the box and use yere intuition for future elections look at policies and mandates and decide dont just go on who has the best spin weeks before elections we are partially to blame as the electorate for all this mess ..the government owns R.T.E we all no that so why be fooled.. everytime …if this country declines deeper into the mire its because WE let it happen..WE have our chance on MAY 31st to make our stand ..

Enda Kenny and Fine Gael voted for the Bank Bailout Scheme in 2008 let’s not forget. They were there, seen the books, knew the state of the country, knew the bailouts would inflict severe taxation and cuts on each and every one of us and voted right along with Fianna Fail. They knew. They didn’t care. They wanted their throne, and they got it. If Enda was in any way worried about the people he would have voted against the Bank Bailouts whilst in opposition but he knew that the minute the bailouts were sanctioned, people would turn against Fianna Fail and bang – we get into power.

Then the lies in the run up to the elections. “Not One More Red Cent”… Like they were appalled that Fianna Fail bailed out the banks and here they were – our saviours – who would burn the bondholders if we voted for them. Look at this mess they’ve left.. BUT THEY KNEW!!

Enda Kenny got his throne, he will continue to look after himself and come the next election he will resign and head off into the sunset with his two fat pensions and lump sum payments. And we are just the little people who could do with a days work and sure €2 a week won’t kill ya. Shameful.

Fiona

that would be 3 fat pensions – his TD’s, his Taoiseachs and his teachers pensions, actually make it 4 – I forgot about his old age state pension.

You’re right Michael, it is FF who are to blame.. It’s just that FG/Lab are behaving so like them it’s hard to tell the difference..

Mind you, if what you are saying is correct and all the political parties will just do the same thing regardless of their promises, then what’s the point of democracy?
They knew what they were getting into, they lied and spouted their own populist nonsense that they knew they would never implement, they did so with enough feigned sincerity to hoodwink enough of the electorate. That is not democracy, it’s fraud.

You don’t have to be Einstein to work that mathematical equation out!!! Your point?????

The point is there is a sizeable proportion of people who refuse to pay the charge who spent €100/month on fags and booze etc.
There’s also a sizeable group of non property owning crusties who are not even liable for the tax, jumping on the bandwagon as social agitators.

Well said jumpthecat….Its always the same muck on here…. Was home last weekend at way to my parents house drove past a house with signs all over ot protesting against household charges etc. etc… Thing is I know the guy that owns it…..worked about 3 years in the last 20, lives in a state built house… Makes me sick to my core…

I thought this was clarified before. They’re not paying because they can’t, it’s the moral principle.
If people want to spend money on the little things to make their lives a little more colourful in light of all the cuts, it’s a far more worthy use of funds than pumping them into Phil Hogan’s black hole.

Most people have no issue with the 2euro a week argument.Its when it becomes 10 or 20 euro a week is where people have a problem.BTW you can’t pay weekly.

@jumpthecat et al – But it’s not ABOUT being unable to afford €2 a week for introductory HHC. It’s the PRINCIPLE of the matter! People chose to make a stand against an unfair charge and lack of information about the future of the tax and how it would be valued. It’s the future people can’t afford, so they are making a stand NOW.

In fairness your man Peadar would have paid back in the day before rates were abolished in the 70′s, where they were all replaced with PRSI. Just because a lot of other countries have rates/charges/council tax, doesn’t make it right. Those countries have also got much higher population density compared to here, which is why those taxes are in place. In the UK council tax funds bin collections, public amenities, street security etc…All the household charge will do is be a small drop into the ocean of “the debt” accrued via bank capitalisation and how FF eroded our tax base. If anyone thinks it will remain at €100, and not increase tenfold over the next few years is kidding themselves. However this is a moot point. I can’t believe Enda said that to the man, he has an awful cheek. Its rather sad how FG & Lab were suppose to change things for the better instead of the same old…either things are much more worse off than we can comprehend, or they are jellyfish like the rest of them.

1. You can’t pay weekly; 2. It is the principal of imposing a regressive tax across the board that many are protesting against. i.e. Earn a million, or a euro, and you pay the same. Totally unfair. 3. We are not idiots (although Kenny and Hogan think we are!) this exercise is all about getting a database of owners and addresses so that in the next few years we will be paying many multiples of your €2 a week, because by voting No we will be handing the decisions on such things over to EU bureaucrats as soon as the current bail out program runs out in 2015.

Declan i’m curious you say he owns the house,so how is it that the house’s builder is relevent.As a homeowner does he not have a right to protest against this charge he feels is unjust?

Norman,
The house was built and paid for by the state. The thoughts of him complaining about anything let alone 100 euro makes me sick. I am going to do my research on the the Gentlemen in the piece also….Think we need to know their background and context before we pass comment.

Declan again i’ll point out you said he owns it,so whom ever built it is irrelevent or are you now saying he rents it,please which is it.

Its very relevant Norman….

“I am going to do my research on the the Gentlemen in the piece also….’

Who the f**k do you think you are Cotter?

Declan obviously thinks he works for the CIA.When he profiles this unemployed man and hands it to the authorities they will come down hard this man should know he’s place .My masters will ensure that he never works again ..HEIL DECLAN HEIL KENNY HEIL FINE GAEL YERE ALL NUTTERS

Ahhh Norman, Norman, Norman

Have you not realised by now that your best bet is to ignore Cotter. He’s a blind fool who idolises the condescending racist pro-Europe puppet, that we have the grave misfortune of having as a Taoiseach. In relation to Cotters attitude to the HHC – as the saying goes “a fool and his money are easily parted”.

JUMPTHECAT

I’m one of those people who isnt eligible to pay the HHC and I am very proud to stand beside my fellow patriotic brothers and sisters against the treachery perpetrated by Kenny & Co. Ltd, who are more than happy to hand the sovereignty of our nation over the to people and an unaccountable institution that desnt give a flying f..k about the 4 million people who live on this island.

Dermot…Dont you dare what the f**k me….
Ann…could care less….if you are calling me a fool, that’s a compliment..

Seriously – who the f**k do you think you are?

here we go again with 2€ a week , ITS NOT GOING TO BE TWO BLOODY EUROS A WEEK , ITS GOING TO BE A SIZEABLE PORTION OF YOUR WAGES EACH WEEK, BASED ON THE VALUE OF YOUR HOUSE , AND DEFINATELY NOT ON HOW MUCH YOU HAVE IN YOUR POCKET .

Kenny is so afraid to admit this so he keeps repeating his “2 euros a week ” crap.

There would be someone likely to try and berate a leader Colm, but a good leader would reply with compassion and intelligence, not insult the man, and the nation.
Even if he thought he was right to say that, the man is stupid enough to say it in front of a camera where the whole country can be outraged by it.
He never was, and never will be a good leader.

Take the bridge, head west and keep going. If you find that verbally abusive you must be very easily insulted. And regardless of where that man’s son is working, he is not in this country. He is not paying taxes here, he is paying taxes for another country. Do you think that is right? That Irish citizens must leave their own country to have the priviledge of working? For if they stay in their own country they will end up on the dole, and called a scrounger and worse? And be vilified by their own government?

You speak of half an hours flight. How much are those flights? How many times a year can the son afford to come home, can the father afford to visit him? Now ask yourself, if Enda Kenny’s son was in a different country what would be the restrictions on either to visit as many times as they wanted? That is the issue here. Children are being forced to leave this country and their parents and families mightn’t see them from one year to the next, but sure you have skype and flights – sure it’s all grand. People are angry, downright angry and they have every right to be.