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Why Bertie Ahern will not be welcome in NUI Maynooth
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Tuesday October 06, 2009 20:35 by W.Carney- FEE NUI Maynooth
Reflections on the appointment of Bertie Ahern by the NUI Maynooth School of Business and Law. It seems almost surreal any Irish University would want to wine and dine Bertie Ahern at the minute. “One of the last socialists in Irish politics” (We all remember that statement!) finds himself among the main figureheads of the Fianna Fail party, a party currently wallowing at 17% support in the Dublin area. He is, for many working people, the perfect embodiment of Fianna Fail gombeenism and greed.
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Jump To Comment: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1We must presume that Bertie Ahern got this job on the basis that he is a "Graduate" of the London School of Economics, as claimed on his CV, until someone discovered that he never graduated from the LSE, or any other university. Josef above mentions the prospect of Bertie or Mary Robinson becomming President of the EU. That job is most likely to go to Tony Blair who, like Bertie Ahern, has some of the blood of Iraqi war dead on his hands.
I read with interest in the (UK) Times last week that Mary Robinson was one of those being considered for the EU president's job. She has far more genuine credentials for this job than the likes of Blair or Ahern.
The prospect of having Bertie Ahern as President of Ireland is however a real threat and this is likely to be behind his appointment to NUIM, as part of the Ahern laundering process.
Lets start an immediate ABBA for President campaign.,
ANYONE BUT Berite Ahern
Bertie Ahern will be at Eason, O'Connell St., Dublin, on Saturday October 10th at 3PM signing his memoirs
"That means he gets staff privileges and dinner too."
The facts are that plenty of staff have made their feelings on the matter clear to the University at this stage, and its incredible that at a time their wages are under attack, and they're trying to deal with massive cutbacks, that this happens. Education workers have lost more than a few small porivileges in recent times, but the last thing they or anyone want to see is John Hughes tucking into the Steak Sambos with Bertie, a man who played no small part in getting us into this mess.
Actually, I'd love to see Bertie spend 5 minutes in one of the staff canteens ;)
Glad to see he finally got some. Meaningless though they are. But he's still just the useless git who got us into the economic disaster we're currently in.
It's interesting that Bertie Ahern "et. al" seem to obsessed with horse racing and various sports meetings.
Bertie Ahern always got into the picture patting a winning horse in Cheltenham.
An amazing amount of his time,and his ministers' time, was spent in the Manchester United stadium and at other sports stadia.
Often at the expense of the taxpayer.
Perhaps the Irish people would be served better if we elected people who would be obsessed by ANYTHING which is less superficial and nonsensical as sport.
Like....... The economy of Ireland for instance.
Think most people in NUIM are only hearing this now, come on FEE and give him a proper welcome party please!
Mr Ahern is an Honorary adjunct Professor in conflict management at the college of Maynooth.
That means he gets staff privileges and dinner too.
Are you gonna stalk him while he does his job during the academic year, cos I don't think you
actually can...
the big difference might be that you have never had the (dis)pleasure of listening to me speak.
Then you get the punctuation glosses and fade outs and emphasis and so on - so forth. Honestly some of us speak better than we write.
Have you ever had the horrible experience of vomiting and diahorrea at the same time?
It's a rare enough bodily (dis)function, admittledly. Something to do with how our reptilian brains keep a grip on the sphincter muscles that keep all those acids and gases in our bodies in some sort of equilibrium. Most people can throw up a little then shit a lot (or vice versa) but simultanous evacuation of both ends of the digestive tract really calls for a weighty (often drug induced) provocation.
That's what Irish politics reminds me of.
I only wish I could get my punctuation together to express the feeling and put words on my memory of a horrible night in a London rave party without loo roll to raise political consciousness in Ireland.
sure you might as well try and catch a worm.
" wouldn't understand his diction"
As a user of indymedia for many years, none of your incomprehensible posts have ever made any sense to me.
Surely none amongst us believe either Bertie Ahern or Mary Robinson are in the running for EU president. Equally surely most of us realise that they are in the past now. Robinson at least got her UN job until the hypocrisy of it reportedly got too much for even her. Bertie has got nothing much.
I mean no insult to Maynooth or anyone else who wants to give him a degree, doctorate, diploma, driving license, starring role in a ghost porn movie [without condom!!!] or a gold plated triple fold silk woven monogram embroidered life time supply of arse wipes. But the reality of the matter is, Bertie Ahern doesn't cost that much for a talking gig on the international circuit for the good reason that most people on the paid talking gig circuit :
(a) wouldn't understand his diction.
(b) would be popping off to the bathroom for a go on the andrex puppy.
(c) would probably be bankrupt by now thanks to the toxic asset thing.
So...........
If you really want to mock an X- Taoiseach then you go straight between the cheeks into the unseeing eye of his chosen sucessor. You get smutty. You get low down dirty and revel in your irrelevance to Irish political life. After all, they better understand abstentionists and no-voters than you do.
I used to suggest you simply get a bunch of middle aged men to walk in formation in every protest march without thier t-shirts or shirts or any kind of geansaí as naked as their top halfs can allow them to be........ as long as they wear a bra and carry some loo-roll.
Now I reckon all you have to do is push the loo-roll thing. This news report on RTE http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1006/education.html tells us so much about ourselves. Foreign media hint at a return to "Angela's ashes" penury and squalor at the idea that the Irish state can't pay for hygienic paper in its schools. Such journalists conveniently forget either the universal standard of wax paper "if at all" of the 20th century in Europe or they are significantly ignoring the fact the many a parent has ensured their daughter carry toilet paper or kleenex with them for as long as kleenex has been a registered trademark and accepted word in the vocabulary. Never before did such concern prompt either budgetary interpretation or international media coverage. - - - [ That's a long time but not as long as you might think over in Maynooth & quite probably shorter than they think in Cambridge.]
Educational Bog Roll for wiping up Bertie Ahern's legacy