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Neill Prendeville - 1st November |
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Written by Neill Prendeville
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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
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Bertie has balls I’ll grant you that! But then wasn’t he apprentice to the most arrogant, covetous master of them all, high-handed Haughey who believed in the “do as I say (not what I do)” school of philosophy. Haughey’s protégé has now taken to flaunting his wealth while he gives two fingers to the nation as he warns us of tough times ahead while he takes a 16% pay hike. It defies belief that Bertie Aherne could accept and trouser an extra €38,000 a year at a time when the rest of the nation is being prepared for a tough budget from his government.
Bertie, not giving a damn, argues vaguely about the government implementing pay-scales as if he has nothing at all to do with it. But that’s just horse shite and he knows it only he’s gone beyond caring, he genuinely thinks that he has some sort of absolute power that gives him some sort of divine right to ride rough shod over the people of this country. This pay increase I see as being the straw that will eventually break the camels back and what the Taoiseach might not remember is that there’s more than one way to skin a cat or bring down a government. Bertie and his merry men, who’ve got things slightly arseways with their rob the poor and pay the rich philosophy, didn’t have to accept the pay increase they could have taken the lead of Tony Blair and half of his cabinet when they refused to take an increases of 40pc at a time when the then Chancellor Gordon Brown said he could not give public sector workers any increases. Bertie and his bandits have no such qualms. Our Taoiseach is now earning over €40,000 per year more than the British PM, who heads up a country of 60 million people, he’s also earning €20,000 more than US President Bush. Bertie waffled something about him not having a city or country residence, last time I checked however Chequers and Downing Street were belonging to the British tax payer. Bertie Aherne is a national disgrace accepting a pay hike that is greater than the average industrial wage and there is absolutely no arguing with that.
I was delighted to see Michael Healy Rae win the Celebrity whatever it was called that was aired on RTE to coincide with the Telethon. I like Michael Healy Rae, I think he is a breath of fresh air and apparently the tens of thousands of those people who voted him winner share my view. The Sunday Independent however had another view point and when their choice didn’t win they questioned the mechanism of the competition and suggested, wait for it, that the public didn’t understand what they were doing when they voted Healy-Ray victorious. Like so many other Dublin 4 gob-shites they can’t cope when their camp is upset and when they realise that they are not after all the shapers of public opinion that they thought they were. I don’t know much about Dublin’s hot favourite Katy French who incidentally came last, apart from the bits of her bum and boobs that are thrown in my face in the tabloids day after day after day and I have no desire to know anything about her either. Clearly this is another of my views which is shared by the real people of Ireland who kicked her out of the show on the first day and kept Healy-Rae in until the end. The Kilgarvan man may not belong in the Ice Bar at Dublin’s plush Four Seasons Hotel but I’d hazard he’d be a lot more welcome in the bars and restaurants the length and breath of Ireland that are frequented by real people with genuinely fascinating and remarkable lives.
Speaking of the Telethon I reckon a lot of the money they made this year should go to the new poor, the bar owners and the property developers! Spare a thought and a few bob for the poor publican, first there was the smoking ban and now the new drink driving laws, the industry is going to be destroyed. A tribunal is needed to investigate the death of the Irish Pub and the ruination of the poor publican who’ll soon be on par with the poor Irish farmer. My heart bleeds but it bleeds even more for the poor property developer, what are they going to do now that we’re being threatened with the end of the property boom. Hopefully they’ll have a few friends in high places that’ll organise a dig-out for them in their time of need. And who knows there are plenty of friends of property developers who’ve recently been awarded unbelievably massive wage increases so maybe they might be able to help out with the dig-out on the basis of what goes around comes around.
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