Lost Leaders ......... the Granny Harney.

by @ the blackboard. Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:18

that pensioners of the 2nd richest state in the EU forced to pay 80% of their state pensions to the cost of public nursing homes.

by @ the projector. Mon Dec 20, 2004 11:52

Safety and security in all it's forms is a right to which the citizens of Europe's cities do not have equal access.
Fear based on whether or not we are of European origin, native or imigrant, rich or poor, young or old, male or female; inequalities based with respect to dangers faced in cities, of marginalisation, of health problems, of violence, access to legal assistance, access to pensions that guarantee dignity, of the recognition of our fundamental civil rights
.
We cannot simply count on market laws to redress these inequalities.

These are intolerable wrongs.............................

by @ the supreme court Fri Feb 18, 2005 02:23

it will cost over 500,000,000€
it has already cost and is costing
dignity, insecurity, precarity, fear, isolation, confusion,
feelings of abandonment, all those inexcusable wrongs which have accumulated as Harney and her party did their thing.

The "celtic tiger" was in many ways an unavoidable emergent property of late XX century economics and political development. The growth in the Irish economy may not be credited to any one political party in that state. It would have happened anyway.
But the disregard for the weakest in Irish society at the time of the building of wealth and enjoyment of development may be blamed on a party that is and was and always will be un-neccesary to the good governance of the Irish people.

Remember that when you "vote or don't vote" in the forthcoming by elections.

by @ the lab. Tue Mar 01, 2005 22:06

that her stock in Elan has dipped on account of its groundbreaking biotech product causing the death of a patient?
or is that water off a duck's back?
Did the granny Harney ever understand biotech?
Were they her numbers and letters to play with?
= No they weren't.

by élan. Sat Mar 05, 2005 15:04

on Friday, hardest hit private pension fund managers based in Dublin's financial centre.
Like most stockbrokers, they basically gamblers, and anyone who is of the type who thinks photocopying 50quid notes and throwing them on pacifists is fun, is the sort of jingoist who keeps the nest eggs close to home.

Rest assured, your state pension will not be effected by this.

by doing the figures. Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:24

value lost on Irish pension funds :- 400million

"About €400m was wiped off the value of Irish pension funds in the first quarter of 2005 as a direct result of the collapse in the Elan share price, according to Mercer Investment Consulting."
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=184&si=1371135&issue_id=12297

Mercer are one of the private finance entities that support the creation of a pan european pension fund system, by which the "problem of old people" will be given its final solution. Those who can afford to invest a large % of their salaries across a forty year period in globalised finance will be guaranteed healthcare and food as they move to the non working section of the population and start dying.

It has long been observed that the US pension fund management lobby exerts the most horrible pressure on the production of base commidities and raw materials, ensuring for example that rubber production is kept as low as possible so the wheels on the cars go round - round - round
at a fraction of their true value, causing yet more destruction of natural rubber habitats (the rain forests) and whole scale human cost. Heck they didn't fight the commies in the Nam.

Those who can't afford to invest a large % of their salary (perhaps because they live in precarity and don't have a salary just a minimum non capital wage or indeed because they found something better to do withtheir lives than stay 40 years in stable corporative or near corporative work models) will be offered progressively downgraded health and other services and as a reward for not investing in the exploitation of the third world will probably die younger and thus goto heaven.

See it all balances out in the end.

The Pan Euro pension scheme will offer "employees" a thin slice of the pie.
There are many who are being left out of the loop.
That is the nature of precarity. Let me tell you and them, they do not understand precarity. They imagine that a new generation of workers and sometime graduates are doing what they the ruling class did, "silly jobs" till the real job comes along. But there are millions now in Europe who have entered "precarity" indefinetly, & if real jobs are to created they will go to the freshest school/university leavers. Meanwhile speculation pushes up the cost of home ownership/rental decreasing the % that it is possible for a young worker or family to invest in the financial products of Setanta or Veritas or Lloyds. The ruling class don't seem to either care or comprehend the insecurity, and why should they?
"everything is going to be ok"


http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=184&si=1371135&issue_id=12297

"get a white hat and walk the beach where the geishas give you a pina colada, prozac and viagra and say rest your weary bones, for you have now reaches your just deserts"

by ipsiphi Fri May 25, 2007 19:14

has the pleasure of being the first PD elected.

olé mary. i measured the girth of your ambition long ago. but when it comes down to crunch time and the fruit of five years mass psychology and unprecedented internet sourced influence on Irish political life .- you earned your place in the 165 deputies.

we-ve got used to your needs and know there is nothing much else in life for you than going to Leinster house on a regular basis.
i'm sending you a photo of your date with michael mc dowell in the unicorn restaurant.

by Barry Sat May 26, 2007 20:07

yuk

parting is such sweet sorrow

by Dorothy Gale Sat May 26, 2007 20:14 Emerald City

I wouldn't like to kiss McDowell either. Was Harney paid to do it or was it a dare?

What next for Harney though? Just her and Grealish. Will they join FF? There'll be no senators this time around.

by Stuart Sun May 27, 2007 10:39

It is not possible that she and Bertie sat down and worked out how to present his financial affairs in such a way that a) she resigned "clean"; b) Mickey suddenly had some difficulty explaining his new partner; c) Mickey thought he could stuff Bertie for personal gain; d) Bertie pulled off the hugest sympathy stunt of all time; e) Mary gets her old job back - secretrary of state for health, tanaiste and head of the PDs? f) all in a government with an increased overall majority? g) and Bertie's compromised "gene pool" get back in too?!

They could not have planned it, surely. And they could not have stuffed up Jody Corcoran and the entire staff of the Irish Times in their plot?

Whatever the outcome of the election, I don't think Bertie will remain party leader until the next election.

by iosaf mac diarmada .:. the ipsiphi Sun May 27, 2007 13:40

& as such she will need the support of a technical group if she is to be offered any real opportunity to have the piss taken out of her. You could consider her for the next Dail as a sort of looney right equivalent to Joe Higgins. Except of course Joe Higgins didn't have so far to fall nor can be really credit with wasting money, spoiling lives or being completely incompetent. Don't worry the doctors will still find time to ask her questions http://indymedia.ie/article/69192
I would love to write you a full "Sunday Papers" but today 5 million Catalans are voting in their municipal elections along with 34 million more Spaniards and Basques for a whopping 87,000+ councils which range from little towns to cities with around three million workers in each. 13 of the 17 autonomous regions of the Spanish state will also elect their local presidents. That's a lot of recycling, safe jobs, housing issues, illegalised demonstrations, police issues, schooling qualities, corruption and bribery investigations, "mid-term test for ZP" and stuff. Yep the okupes get in their too along with the anarchists, the basques, the lehandakari, the new comer nasty party we want to destroy today -

Thankfully no-one has called the was the general election to the 30th Dail fixed? I just find it so suspicious that an independent deputy must now try and fill the seats of so many egos before
@ Eire cyber land. Which shows you've learned the lessons of how the mass works, have a rough idea of how your governments are formed & where your type of very advanced socio-economic state may expect to go in the 21st century. In other words you're realising if not who calls the shots then how they are called & aimed so accurately.

Ah but kids! the Progressive Democrats lurk on in the councils of Eire, the newspapers and courts, civil service and even at the posh bit of Europe. Now I told you all we were going to change the regime. Which meant taking the PD's out of your system and history. The Seanad elections are as exciting as valium on a pissed damp day normally - but it is essential you get finish the job.

Get the balance between "jumping up and down on the political grave of mc dowell " & ensuring the bizarre nature of the Eire/Free State upper chamber allows no defiant squeeks to get through.
So we'll have a bit of discipline in the fleet as we bring ourselves around to wondering how much interest did the PD's take in our internet activity.
You could start by recalling this debate which saw McDowell refer to our little photos and comments in an exchange with his fellow D6 resident deputy Gormley amongst others
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:7uL-FKy2a0kJ:debates...gl=es

http://debates.oireachtas.ie/Xml/29/DAL20060309.PDF

But I am going to write a suitable article and continue helping you all to finish the job lest ye be a bit disorientated at a most crucial juncture in your history. & then quicker than you can work out the embedded code on a sacred auburgine - you'll read no more from me .:. nor need to.

+ we must finish the job .:.