Comments on: Acceptance of large gifts http://www.publicinquiry.eu/2006/12/25/acceptance-of-large-gifts/ Examining corruption in Ireland Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:13:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: The Crewser http://www.publicinquiry.eu/2006/12/25/acceptance-of-large-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-3679 The Crewser Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:01:22 +0000 http://www.publicinquiry.eu/2006/12/25/acceptance-of-large-gifts/#comment-3679 If Charlie Haughey really did get 45 Million Quid then that was the best spent 45 Million in the history of this Country as that great man was the catalyst for everything that has happened economically since. Despite all the begrudgery when he was alive and lots more now that he's dead the Irish people know that Charlie put the IFSC in place and generally generated the confidence and sentiment which brought about the economic revolution we see all around us today. Once in every age a great man comes along and rises to the top. So it was with Charlie. However I do not expect the West Brit begrudgers who generally contribute to this forum to understand. Charlie was the only leader in the World who had the balls to rebuke Mrs Thatcher publicly for her treatment of Argentenian civillians. That alone would have put him offside with the Indo and The Times and of course RTE If Charlie Haughey really did get 45 Million Quid then that was the best spent 45 Million in the history of this Country as that great man was the catalyst for everything that has happened economically since. Despite all the begrudgery when he was alive and lots more now that he’s dead the Irish people know that Charlie put the IFSC in place and generally generated the confidence and sentiment which brought about the economic revolution we see all around us today. Once in every age a great man comes along and rises to the top. So it was with Charlie. However I do not expect the West Brit begrudgers who generally contribute to this forum to understand.
Charlie was the only leader in the World who had the balls to rebuke Mrs Thatcher publicly for her treatment of Argentenian civillians.
That alone would have put him offside with the Indo and The Times and of course RTE

]]> By: Gordon DAVIES http://www.publicinquiry.eu/2006/12/25/acceptance-of-large-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-3637 Gordon DAVIES Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:54:33 +0000 http://www.publicinquiry.eu/2006/12/25/acceptance-of-large-gifts/#comment-3637 of course , in FF land, it is considered extrememly "unfair" to quote old speeches like this. Only those who "have an agenda" would even dream of doing this. In the Never-never land of FF politics it is unrealistic to expect any FF member to be consistent in his or her statements. What will we be expecting next... policies, principlles, decency... FF knows only one imperative; stay in power, keep on board the gravy train. In this they always have been totally consistent. It is interesting to compare FF's progress - from the high principmes of the struggle for independence to the high sleaze of Hoaughey and his accomplices and the descent of the Gaulists i France... from Resistance fighters and the the Free French to the arch con-man Chirac who Haughey's contemporary and equal in crime. He may even go for a third term. Gordon of course , in FF land, it is considered extrememly “unfair” to quote old speeches like this. Only those who “have an agenda” would even dream of doing this. In the Never-never land of FF politics it is unrealistic to expect any FF member to be consistent in his or her statements. What will we be expecting next… policies, principlles, decency… FF knows only one imperative; stay in power, keep on board the gravy train. In this they always have been totally consistent.

It is interesting to compare FF’s progress – from the high principmes of the struggle for independence to the high sleaze of Hoaughey and his accomplices and the descent of the Gaulists i France… from Resistance fighters and the the Free French to the arch con-man Chirac who Haughey’s contemporary and equal in crime. He may even go for a third term.

Gordon

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