A tough few days for the Bullingdon Club with the Marquess of Bath succumbing to this blasted virus yesterday.
A Galway TD dropping dead as they win a senior football final. Not exactly what you ordered but the best I can do for you.
They always have a next PM market, itâs suspended now, doubt theyâd inroduce a new one
I forgot this one @Lazarus - Harold Holt died while Aussie PM in 1967 or thereabouts - legend has it he was eaten by a shark. That may be legend but itâs what Iâm going with. I donât think his body was ever found.
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He was still in office
There was an Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt who went for a swim in 1967 and hasnât been since. Actually I see @Dziekanowski has just mentioned it.
Didnât the Aussies name a swimming pool after him?
Thereâs a good bit in Bill Byrsonâs 1927 on his replacement Calvin Coolidge, one of the laziest leaders of all time. He slept for 11 hours a night and went for afternoon naps. One of his hobbies was to place his feet in the bottom drawer of the Oval Office desk and count the cars passing by on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Boris could have done with that attitude last week tbf.
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Donât know that. For what itâs worth, I did notice passing through Tipp Town a few weeks ago that the swimming pool there is named after Sean Treacy.
Quick google and I was right
Harold Holt Swim Centre provides our diverse community with opportunities to learn, maintain and improve their health and well being. Programs and facilities include Learn to Swim program, group fitness classes, gym, hydrotherapy program, indoor 25m pool, outdoor heated 50m pool, spa and sauna.
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Mikey Donnellans grampa @anon67715551?? An all Ireland winner himself and a died in the woolDunmore blueshirt if Iâm not mistaken??
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I wonder was the Harold Bishop storyline in Neighbours partly based off that. Harold disappeared off some coastal rocks one day in late 1991 - his wife Madge was frantic - it all happened while her back was turned - and that was the end of Harold - or so we thought.
But lo and behold Harold turned up again out of the blue in 1997. He had been picked up by a trawler and lost all memory. He was now living as âTedâ and was helping out with the Salvation Army. By sheer coincidence, he went out fundraising on doorsteps around Erinsbrough and turned up on none other than Helen Danielsâ doorstep. Helen immediately recognised him and informed Madge. Then within a couple of days, Madge found Harold and within a week Harold had completely recovered his memory and all was back to normal.
I preferred the storyline in Dallas where Bobby Ewingâs death turned out to be a dream Pam had, it was more believable.
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President Coolidgeâs legacy of laziness is currently being re-evaluated in light of more recent events.
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Being Aussie PM is a very precarious job. The last 30 years has seen nearly non stop heaves even with the main party having a comfortable majority with only the Howard tenure stable. There must have been 10 full blown heaves in that time.
The 1975 Constitutional crisis where Gough Whitman was fried by the Governor General was very interesting.
Bob Hawke was there for nearly a decade. The last decade and a bit though have been bizarre, constant backstabbing. They seem to have elections a lot more regularly as well.
What happened to Whitlam was effectively a coup. He was their finest ever PM.
Heâll be grand.
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Hawke was there for a decade but was constantly under fire from Keating from â87 and survived one full blown heave.
The 2010-2019 period has been particularly bonkers with the prize turning over 4 times to a new person without an election and 5 office holders. Iâm pretty sure the only out and our winners (ie not a minority government winner) was Tony Abbot in 2013 and more recently Sco Mo.
The Australians are not really up to self governing. Lucky for them they have the safety net of the Commonwealth and the Mother Country.
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Nowâs not the time to be condescending towards others
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There is a little museum in reception there dedicated to him and his colleagues at the time.