What amazes me is that way most of the media ignore any story that reflects badly on the political class. I will do them the honour of assuming that they went in to journalism with the lofty goal of exposing wrong and doing right. I just can't understand how anyone who starts a career with a noble aim can so quickly become a craven coward. I know that we are all human and make compromised and bad choices but I find it amazing that very few if any of them have the guts to say that this is wrong and no matter how much I am rewarded I can't go along with this and face myself in the mirror every day. Better a noble pauper than a well rewarded coward.
Has Norma Foley done anything in politics other than relentlessly supporting Micheal Martin?
Of course the real people to blame are the 10,302 voters who willingly gave her a first preference in the 2024 general election. Another 3,352 gave her preferences until she got elected on the 13th count.
At least the dopes in CJ Haughey’s cabinet were good to laugh at. No sane person could laugh at the antics and costly failures of this government’s eejits and nincompoops .
That reminded me of the film Misery. Horrific. Norma Foley needs to be returned to her timeline running a womens stilletto heels boutique in Longford Town in 1990 before she does any more dammage.
Ryan Tubridy was overpaid by 13% of his salary, having agreed to several pay-cuts over the previous years. Outrage; led the news for weeks. But this story, and hundred million euro-overspends in the public sector, will receive hardly any coverage and provoke no outrage. Why is that?
I think we're being entirely unfair to the likes of Norma Foley and Helen McEntee in these columns with respect to the performance of their minsterial duties. What we should be doing is celebrating just how much they have managed to accomplish given the obviously severe learning disabilities and cognitive impairment with which they're burdened. In point of fact, it's a credit to the current administration that they have managed, in the spirit of inclusivity, to provide so many challenged candidates a chance to participate at a cabinet level.
Harney created the plan to amalgamate the Health Boards, the PS Unions roared "sounds like redundancies", Bertie said "read my lips, no redundancies" making the whole thing into a rebranding exercise & the HSE into a retirement home for redundant Health Board workers. The Children and Family Services division of the HSE was amalgamated with the Family Support Agency and the National Educational Welfare Board to form Tusla, it never stood a chance, just like many children in need of it's care.
When FAS was transmogrified into SOLAS & the 16 ETBs, several highly-paid executives who's services were no longer required, including the wife of a Labour Party politician, were put "on the bench", on full salaries, then brought onto the field when any of their fellow executives retired. The Public Service in Ireland is a Wonderland, once you're not a member of the public, requiring services.
What amazes me is that way most of the media ignore any story that reflects badly on the political class. I will do them the honour of assuming that they went in to journalism with the lofty goal of exposing wrong and doing right. I just can't understand how anyone who starts a career with a noble aim can so quickly become a craven coward. I know that we are all human and make compromised and bad choices but I find it amazing that very few if any of them have the guts to say that this is wrong and no matter how much I am rewarded I can't go along with this and face myself in the mirror every day. Better a noble pauper than a well rewarded coward.
Has Norma Foley done anything in politics other than relentlessly supporting Micheal Martin?
Of course the real people to blame are the 10,302 voters who willingly gave her a first preference in the 2024 general election. Another 3,352 gave her preferences until she got elected on the 13th count.
At least the dopes in CJ Haughey’s cabinet were good to laugh at. No sane person could laugh at the antics and costly failures of this government’s eejits and nincompoops .
I wish we had Haugheys cabinet back. Jerry Collins. Ray Burke and P. Flynn excepted.
John, I'd bet all of *your* money that Norma Foley still has her CD copies of "A Woman's Heart" and "A Woman's Heart 2".
That reminded me of the film Misery. Horrific. Norma Foley needs to be returned to her timeline running a womens stilletto heels boutique in Longford Town in 1990 before she does any more dammage.
Ryan Tubridy was overpaid by 13% of his salary, having agreed to several pay-cuts over the previous years. Outrage; led the news for weeks. But this story, and hundred million euro-overspends in the public sector, will receive hardly any coverage and provoke no outrage. Why is that?
Because this report is an entirely different matter and unrelated.
That is why. 🫥
I'm dure Tusla will be getting a radical overhaul in the near future. It will be rebranded .. and that's about it .. nothing else will change.
And it amazes me that no one else in the world noticed what this wretched family was going through.
I think we're being entirely unfair to the likes of Norma Foley and Helen McEntee in these columns with respect to the performance of their minsterial duties. What we should be doing is celebrating just how much they have managed to accomplish given the obviously severe learning disabilities and cognitive impairment with which they're burdened. In point of fact, it's a credit to the current administration that they have managed, in the spirit of inclusivity, to provide so many challenged candidates a chance to participate at a cabinet level.
You are obviously a glass half full man, John. I still think that Big Norm and ‘Tayto Park’ McEntee have underperformed even by cretin standards.
Harney created the plan to amalgamate the Health Boards, the PS Unions roared "sounds like redundancies", Bertie said "read my lips, no redundancies" making the whole thing into a rebranding exercise & the HSE into a retirement home for redundant Health Board workers. The Children and Family Services division of the HSE was amalgamated with the Family Support Agency and the National Educational Welfare Board to form Tusla, it never stood a chance, just like many children in need of it's care.
When FAS was transmogrified into SOLAS & the 16 ETBs, several highly-paid executives who's services were no longer required, including the wife of a Labour Party politician, were put "on the bench", on full salaries, then brought onto the field when any of their fellow executives retired. The Public Service in Ireland is a Wonderland, once you're not a member of the public, requiring services.
The EU in many ways acts as a similar mud guard for politicians. "It's from Brussels, lads. Nothing we can do."