Paddy's day should be interesting

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Ron Burgundy

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With all the belt tightning and cut backs it will be fun to see how many government ministers go on junkets for Patrick's day and then to see how they will justify them to the public.

It is an extreme waste of money. They go to represent Ireland, hmmmm is that not what we pay ambassadors very well for ???

But for me if they all fly off around the globe wasting money on these junkets it will be the final straw.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
With all the belt tightning and cut backs it will be fun to see how many government ministers go on junkets for Patrick's day and then to see how they will justify them to the public.

It is an extreme waste of money. They go to represent Ireland, hmmmm is that not what we pay ambassadors very well for ???

But for me if they all fly off around the globe wasting money on these junkets it will be the final straw.
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They would be better off sending a crate of bananas to all the various countries ministers are travelling to.

Cheaper, they get to eat them and they don't have to come home.

Too bad we don't have politicians like bananas.
 
I agree. Politicians are like bananas though - you hardly ever get a straight one.
I know some local councillors in the country are going on junkets overseas eg to the States. Shure when they see the pay + perks + junkets of those at the top ( Cowen + McAlesse ) you would hardly blame them.
 
A friend of mine was working on pipelines a few years ago in Saudia Arabia. On Paddy's Day the British Embassy/Consulate sent down a crate of whiskey to the Irish working there, the Irish Embassy sent a card.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
With all the belt tightning and cut backs it will be fun to see how many government ministers go on junkets for Patrick's day and then to see how they will justify them to the public.

It is an extreme waste of money. They go to represent Ireland, hmmmm is that not what we pay ambassadors very well for ???

But for me if they all fly off around the globe wasting money on these junkets it will be the final straw.
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+1. I was amazed that there wasn't a bigger deal made of the cost of [broken link removed]. Don't know how anyone can justify it in the current environment. €160k pays €200 a week dole money to 800 people for a year !
 
For a year? This post will be deleted if not edited immediately H Christ! Throw away that calculator and back to the 800 times table:D
 
Simeon said:
For a year? This post will be deleted if not edited immediately H Christ! Throw away that calculator and back to the 800 times table:D
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lol Just checking was everyone paying attention !!! Absolutely no idea where I got the "per year " from - reckon I should definitely be minister for finance :D :eek:.
 
boris said:
A friend of mine was working on pipelines a few years ago in Saudia Arabia. On Paddy's Day the British Embassy/Consulate sent down a crate of whiskey to the Irish working there, the Irish Embassy sent a card.
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Alcohol is not allowed in Saudi...and if some Irish person or people got a "crate of whiskey" how was that an even distribution to all the Irish working in Saudi at the time ?
 
rabbit said:
Alcohol is not allowed in Saudi...and if some Irish person or people got a "crate of whiskey" how was that an even distribution to all the Irish working in Saudi at the time ?
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On the compounds that foreign workers reside you can get alcohol!

I'm going to be too drunk on Paddy's day to be able to count where our ministers and assorted leeches are but I'm sure someone will have a web page called "the great minister track" somewhere where we can track them.
 
Regular Airline Fare - €400

Government Jet cost - €136,000.

You can correct the figures but the difference was something in that order when Willie and Mary went to Texas and got ........ (very little) from their meeting with Dell.

Criminal wastage - Ground the Jet! Ground the Jet! (all protest slogans or US electoral chants must have only 3 words -Yes we Can TM Bob the Builder )
 
I thought I read in a recent Irish Mail on Sunday that most of the Patrick's Day junkets - sorry, diplomatic visits! - had been curtailed already for this year, with the exception of the usual presentation of the Shamrock to the US president and one or two others? (can't find a link to the story though, and I recycled the newspaper!)
 
boris said:
A friend of mine was working on pipelines a few years ago in Saudia Arabia. On Paddy's Day the British Embassy/Consulate sent down a crate of whiskey to the Irish working there, the Irish Embassy sent a card.
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Well, the idea of the drink soaked St. Patrick's day is one we imported, when I was in the States in the early '90's I was really surprised how the locals saw March 17th as the annual day to drink and get drunk. Mass and Public Drunkenness on that day here wasn't really seen here in Ireland until about 5 years ago imo.
 
gillarosa said:
.. Mass and Public Drunkenness on that day here wasn't really seen here in Ireland until about 5 years ago imo.
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I was never aware of it being a day for getting wasted, until I worked with a guy from Donegal, about 15 years ago. He was astonished that I had no plans to get hammered. From his perspective, I was the only person in the country not doing so.
 
TarfHead said:
I was never aware of it being a day for getting wasted, until I worked with a guy from Donegal, about 15 years ago. He was astonished that I had no plans to get hammered. From his perspective, I was the only person in the country not doing so.
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add me to that list. I won't be on a junket or drunk here........
 
They will just say that it was organized a year ago and that they have made commitments so will have to go.
 
TarfHead said:
I was never aware of it being a day for getting wasted, until I worked with a guy from Donegal, about 15 years ago. He was astonished that I had no plans to get hammered. From his perspective, I was the only person in the country not doing so.
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This just sounds like a typical weekend night in Donegal to me. They (generalising ) tend to drink to oblivion. This is at least what I've noticed any time i've been there.
 
I never go out drinking on St Patrick's day. I got sick of parenst getting blind drunk with young children running around like mad. Not for me.
 
well its all over liveline again today. 2 from Meath county council have pulled out because of the amount of calls etc they are getting complaining..........
 
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