Yes, they were all definitely part of the Fianna Fail brain trust. Mistakes were made and there was no doubt corruption but these were talented and intelligent and visionary people who also did a lot of good for the country (tax exemption for the arts, smoking ban puns & restaurants, free travel for pensioners, Irish Financial Services Centre, peace in Northern Ireland). You have to look at the entirety of their contribution. Is there anyone in Irish politics today as talented and intelligent as CJ?
crlgarrett did alot of good for the country? you must be joking. Ireland would have been far better off never to see haughey or his cronies, they riddled everything with corruption and cost more to the ordinary citizen than they think. haughey was like a dubious selfish African or south American tyrant,self serving and woefully inadequate. your list of contributions you accredit them with are pretty simplistic ministerial compared to the national debt,poverty and unemployment caused under haughey. talented and intelligent after all these?
No disrespectful offence intended if I expressed incorrectly..Aphasia episode.. Admire the single act of Mr.Haughey 🛑✋the press / media to INCLUDE his BEAUTIFUL WIFE ( in every aspect) in the FF campaign. Watch her BEAM with Pride as her Husband INSTRUCTS that red-coated Female reporter to MOVE so that she(wife) is Included too!❤ Regardless ,! I admire HER FORTITUDE
I wouldn't dignify Padraig Flynn with a comparison to either Mandelson or Campbell. Flynn was an embarrassment to the country and to himself. As an Irish citizen I can only express my deepest contempt for so much of what happened in Fianna Fail while I was growing up.
Fianna Fail and they did (fail). Yes awful joke, I am sorry. Fianna Fail a centre right, centre left party? What part of the spectrum do they fall under?
John King Their ideology is 'power'. They see everything and everyone as a means to that end. They tolerate internal corruption if it enhances their prospects of personal and collective advancement. They are very similar to other parties in that respect and to so many of the Irish public.
Padraig Flynn looks like a crazy Emperor Palpatine
Yes, they were all definitely part of the Fianna Fail brain trust. Mistakes were made and there was no doubt corruption but these were talented and intelligent and visionary people who also did a lot of good for the country (tax exemption for the arts, smoking ban puns & restaurants, free travel for pensioners, Irish Financial Services Centre, peace in Northern Ireland). You have to look at the entirety of their contribution. Is there anyone in Irish politics today as talented and intelligent as CJ?
crlgarrett did alot of good for the country? you must be joking. Ireland would have been far better off never to see haughey or his cronies, they riddled everything with corruption and cost more to the ordinary citizen than they think. haughey was like a dubious selfish African or south American tyrant,self serving and woefully inadequate. your list of contributions you accredit them with are pretty simplistic ministerial compared to the national debt,poverty and unemployment caused under haughey. talented and intelligent after all these?
@@oliver69cork46 does he still frighten you troll.
@@geraldneary1948 don't chew your dodo or poopoo your diaper
No disrespectful offence intended if I expressed incorrectly..Aphasia episode.. Admire the single act of Mr.Haughey 🛑✋the press / media to INCLUDE his BEAUTIFUL WIFE ( in every aspect) in the FF campaign.
Watch her BEAM with Pride as her Husband INSTRUCTS that red-coated Female reporter to MOVE so that she(wife) is Included too!❤
Regardless ,! I admire HER FORTITUDE
The greatest
All this political uneven while the North burned shame on haughey and the people he forget in the North his own people
Father Read shows Charlie's other side he did some real good but the corruption through are politics destroyed all his good.
Biggest Gangster to Date in Irish Politics.and his henchmen followed him all the way everyone of them Mafia style
Padraig Flynn never learned to shut his mouth, and Éire is all the worse for it.
Anyone get the feeling that Padraig Flynn was Ireland's Peter Mandelson?
PJ Mara was Haughey's spin doctor...
Ireland's Alistair Campbell then
I wouldn't dignify Padraig Flynn with a comparison to either Mandelson or Campbell. Flynn was an embarrassment to the country and to himself. As an Irish citizen I can only express my deepest contempt for so much of what happened in Fianna Fail while I was growing up.
Fianna Fail and they did (fail). Yes awful joke, I am sorry. Fianna Fail a centre right, centre left party? What part of the spectrum do they fall under?
John King
Their ideology is 'power'. They see everything and everyone as a means to that end. They tolerate internal corruption if it enhances their prospects of personal and collective advancement. They are very similar to other parties in that respect and to so many of the Irish public.
Haughey was like AL Capone we all paid the price for his corruption we had to immigrate to America for work
Charlie was a talented leader…
What ever they say about him he always looked after the ordinary person
How exactly?
He did in his hole. Looked after number one everytime.
The liberals and the left had a phobia about Charlie.
It's-all scripted and staged.