Dr. Bertie Ahern to be readmitted to FF

[SoundMan]

Imagine the meltdowns if a Bertie Vs Gerry scenario happens.

There's lads on here would would never recover from the banter.

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Don't think Dirty Berty would recover from this no matter how many fluffy interviews RTE gave him

 

[Stacky]

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Don't think Dirty Berty would recover from this no matter how many fluffy interviews RTE gave him

As a former memebr of Fianna Fail what did you say at the time?

 

[Minstrel]

Spot the FFer on here.

Deffo works in some capacity with them.

 

[hurley68]

Yes. For a number of months I was a member of FF soon after leaving school. I got out of it as soon as I saw how corrupt and self-serving they were. The mantra "What's good for Fianna Fail is good for Ireland" summed a lot of them up. There were some decent people amongst them but I left when I witnessed such carry on.

What's your point?

What year did you join sinn fein?

 

[Stacky]

Yes. For a number of months I was a member of FF soon after leaving school. I got out of it as soon as I saw how corrupt and self-serving they were. The mantra "What's good for Fianna Fail is good for Ireland" summed a lot of them up. There were some decent people amongst them but I left when I witnessed such carry on.

What's your point?

You actually just joined a political party without doing any research or talking to party members and you were totally unaware of their nativist Republican ethos?

 

[SoundMan]

As a former memebr of Fianna Fail what did you say at the time?

At the time? Dirty Berty came to prominence in FF after I'd left. He'd only been elected TD in the late 70s and wasn't a minister until the late 1980s I think.
If you mean at the time of that interview I said he's a crook, what did you say? Were you disappointed he got caught or something>

What's with your fixation on me btw


Statty?

 

[SoundMan]

You actually just joined a political party without doing any research or talking to party members and you were totally unaware of their nativist Republican ethos?

Erm it was because of their republican ethos that I did join them. I didn't think Labour Party were for me and I'm definitely not a Blueshirt though Jim Corr was a friend of the family.

Now about your fixation on me - I'm not interested in you, but perhaps Moe and/or jimmy might be able to give you some relief.

 

[Stacky]

Erm it was because of their republican ethos that I did join them. I didn't think Labour Party were for me and I'm definitely not a Blueshirt though Jim Corr was a friend of the family.

Fine Gael were also Republican (Middle Ireland, farmers and intellectuals etc) and conservative like Fianna Fail (F.F. more populist even if it ,means destroying the economy) and Labour were always the party of the working man/Socialists as well as being liberal.

All largely either left of centre or right of centre.

S.F. have also moved into that space in recent years (They have no other choice).

Sinn Fein are just Fianna Fail 30 years down the line anyway with something for everything in the audience and a direct line to Hamas which could come in handy some day.

 

[SoundMan]

Fine Gael were also Republican (Middle Ireland, farmers and intellectuals etc) and conservative like Fianna Fail (F.F. more populist even if it ,means destroying the economy) and Labour were always the party of the working man/Socialists as well as being liberal.

All largely either left of centre or right of centre.

S.F. have also moved into that space in recent years (They have no other choice).

Sinn Fein are just Fianna Fail 30 years down the line anyway with something for everything in the audience and a direct line to Hamas which could come in handy some day.

Not in the late 1970s they weren't

 

[Stacky]

Not in the late 1970s they weren't

Why would anybody?

The country was moving on from the narrow inward looking Nationalism after joining the E.U. and becoming more liberal after the Popes visit in 1979 as the young population increased significantly and demanding more liberal policies etc.

Flogging Great Grandfathers dream of a "United Ireland" when the place was simply skint and there was huge unemployment was hardly a vote winner.