Student union politics type trying to be funny is always cringe. Both of them.
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Attacking Ryan for telling people to try to be mindful of their energy use with commodity prices rising is bizarre right around the other political parties.
It also calls into question what they all actually are committed to with regards to energy conservation. Lashing taxes on things seems to be the default thing these days without really thinking about it.
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Agree.
The electorate cannot be absolved of responsibility for the level of fuckwit we have in Leinster House either.
Paschal puts foot in it with literary faux pas
Miriam Lord
Morto for Paschal Donohoe, whose best boy in the class enthusiasm got the better of him this week when waxing lyrical to Portugalâs new minister for finance about meeting the non-existent widow of a long deceased Portuguese literary giant.
Paschalâs penchant for letting people know about his love of modern literature led to a toe-curling encounter with Fernando Medina at the latest Eurogroup meeting of EU finance ministers in Luxembourg.
The video of a wonderfully oblivious Donohoe buttering up his Portuguese colleague by telling him about his lovely trip to Lisbon is an absolute joy. Imagine Ursula von der Leyen regaling Michael D. about her trip to Dublin where she visited the James Joyce tower and was honoured to be shown around by Nora Barnacle. Or Xavier Bettel excitedly telling MicheĂĄl Martin about visiting the Yeats exhibition in the National Library and getting a guided tour from Maude Gonne herself. Because thatâs more or less what Paschal did.
In the brief clip, a beaming Donohoe buttonholes Medina on the margins of the meeting and starts talking about poet Fernando Pessoa, one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century.
âThe last time I was in Lisbon, your Governor MĂĄrio â a former colleague of ours â took me to the Museum de Pessoa,â he begins, as Fernando smiles broadly, nodding his head when the museum is mentioned.
âAnd I met his widow,â continues Paschal, looking Fernando straight in the face.
Imagine that. To his credit, the Portuguese minister hardly flinches, polite smile in place as Paschal burbles on. âAaand, I just had an absolutely brilliantday. I mean, I get as excited meeting the widow of Fernando Pessoa as my son would meeting Ronaldo.â
And everyone laughs, Eurogroup president Donohoe is so happy he looks fit to burst and the rest are laughing just that little bit too heartily. Unfortunately Catarina Demony, Reutersâ Portugal correspondent, spots Paschalâs little faux pas and sticks it on Twitter.
âIrelandâs finance minister tells Portuguese counterpart Medina that he thoroughly enjoyed his last trip to Lisbon where he met the widow of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa,â she wrote. âPessoa died in 1935 and never got married.â
Oops. âAh well. Any aulâ poet in a storm,â as Sam Beckett memorably said to us in the pub after the inaugural meeting of the Dead Poetsâ Wives Society in Paris last year.
To be fair to our book-loving Minister for Finance (who regularly reviews in these pages), Catarina Demony surmised that he probably met Pilar del Rio, the widow of Portuguese Nobel prize-winning writer JosĂŠ Saramago. Which we believe to be true. Paschal mixed up his literary geniuses.
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Turf ban has been paused like Holohans and Zappones jobs. Surely Eamonn wont be happy with this.
âTurfscutterâ
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For peatâs sakeâŚ
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Weâll be bogged down on this one for another week
Eamon Ryan insists ban on sale and distribution of turf will proceed (irishtimes.com)
PROTECT IRELANDS RAINFORESTS
Mary Lou McDonald takes High Court case against RTĂ over alleged defamation
via The Irish Times
Holohanâs face after MacSharry had made his exit 
âŚMacSharry will be looking under his car in the morning for a while. Marc used some unparliamentary language but was expressing, in the main, what the man in the street was thinking. A fucking jolly-boys outing in reality. Watt is a resilient hoor, hard to land a meaningful blow on him. Holohan possibly shit himself.
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https://www.nmh.ie/home/meet-the-board.14523.html
This is kind of astonishing in a way and seems to have avoided any kind of comment. A successful hotelier, a successful property developer, assorted medics, a collection of mediocrities from the professional services firms, two of the dullest Fine Gael councillors you could come out with, a priest (seriously) and Noirin O Sullivan. Thatâs Noirin O Sullivan the former Garda Commissioner
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Sheâs been busyâŚ
âShe holds a Masters in Business Studies from UCD Smurfit Business School. She has served two terms on the Governing Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland and chaired the Inspection and Enforcement Committee. She is a member of the North American Advisory Board of the UCD Smurfit Business School. NĂłirĂn is the recipient of numerous awards including an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Ulster for Distinguished Public Service.â
All them qualifications and she is forever losing her phone.
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