04.28.06
Bertie’s a busy man
In WHAT other country???…(today’s IT)
“Bertie Ahern’s latest visit to Limerick was a mixture of beauty and the beast. He was in the city partly to open a new branch of Celia Larkin’s business, Beauty at Blue Door, which offers a range of aesthetic enhancements for women and men…
Addressing an audience that also included Minister for Defence Willie O’Dea, Ms Larkin promised her new branch would provide not just “pampering”. It would also help reduce the stress of “today’s hectic lifestyle”.
Of the services offered, Bertie and Willie might be interested in the Power Regeneration Treatment (“Retinol-based exfoliation with penetrating vitamin therapies”), available for a mere €65. Products also include the basic Men’s Skin-Care (from €55), the Universal Contour Body Wrap – “with unique double inch-loss guarantee” – (€165 for a course of three), and the good old-fashioned Enzymatic Mud Pack (€55). All designed to soothe, revitalise, and whatever you’re having yourself.”
FOR GOD’S SAKE, HAVE YOU NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN OPEN YOUR EX-GIRLFRIEND’S NEW SALON?
simon said,
April 28, 2006 at 11:17 pm
Is he not supporting local industry
ronan curran said,
April 29, 2006 at 11:56 am
Sarah–
whats’s your problem with Bertie — why do you detest him so much?
P O'Neill said,
April 29, 2006 at 3:49 pm
OK so Celia is the beauty. Who’s the beast? O’Dea?
Sarah said,
April 29, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Bertie is a likeable and actually, a very honest person. I don’t like his politics because he doesn’t really have any. He is conflict averse. He just negotiates a solution with whatever interest groups are involved in any particular issue without any thought or principle to the core issue that maybe involved. This means that the country is being governed, in times of extraordinary wealth for the Exchequer, without any conviction or care for people in genuine need. The only people kept happy are the ones at the table. If you’re not at the table Bertie doesn’t need to keep you happy and therefore you don’t register.
The closing this week of St. Michael’s school in Inchicore (?) is a case in point. Here is a school for boys in a deprived area in Dublin city. Primary schools in this country are kept going by fundraising from parents. If you are in a school like St. Michael’s where there is no capacity for private fundraising, then tough shit, is the attitude of this government. St. Michael’s was taking boys that no other school would take and should have been rewarded with extra funding, extra supports, extra teachers. Instead we have the “sort it out yourself” attitude. I think that’s despicable and I think a Taoiseach who is from the inner city should in times of plenty have the power to identify the worst 50 primary schools in the country and give them a million a year to help them. It would do SO much for this country. Instead the 50m (++++) is blown on electronic voting, consultants, and benchmarking to senior civil servants who don’t increase their productivity. But civil servants are at the table so they win and the poor people of the inner city aren’t at the table so fuck them. I despise this kind of neglect from someone who has control over the money (which we HAVE now – there was no money before) but who should know better. I think he’s just been in power so long he’s forgotten how some people are forced to live. So he allows make government initiatives to be driven by the Dept of Finance and Michael McDowell, because he has NO initiative himself. It’s a criminal waste. And means he doesn’t see that he has anything more important to do with his day than doing a favour for his ex-girlfriend.
tomcosgrave said,
April 30, 2006 at 1:47 pm
OK so Celia is the beauty. Who’s the beast? O’Dea?
Fianna Fáil as a party.