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Tubby Isaacs Posts: 13654	posted 21-06-2012 15:44 But I didn't know it was this bad: Michael "the Stroke" Fahy and "Fingers" Fingleton raised a smile. Any other nicknames I should know?
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Duncan Gardner Put out more flags! Posts: 6640	posted 21-06-2012 15:47 Tubby Isaacs wrote: Any other nicknames I should know? Enda 'the Culchie gobshite' O'Century Kenny?
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Tubby Isaacs Posts: 13654	posted 21-06-2012 15:59 This Fahy bloke's had his conviction over the fence quashed? They reckon he really did have a verbal agreement to pay in rubble?
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Diable Rouge Every silver lining has a cloud Posts: 4418	posted 21-06-2012 19:16 You forget we're talking Irish politics - even if a TD was caught in flagrante delicto engaged in bestiality, voters would say "Ah sure, he got Johnny and Mary jobs in the Department". Back to nicknames, John "The Bull" O'Donoghue, Pat "The Cope" Gallagher, The Long Fellow (Dev), The Big Fellow (Collins), Charlie "The Boss" Haughey.
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Duncan Gardner Put out more flags! Posts: 6640	posted 21-06-2012 19:52 First Minister of North Korea: Swish Fam-Lee President of South Korea: Lep Ree-Chaun
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ursus arctos Posts: 26495	posted 21-06-2012 19:53 Have people really forgotten that one of our most beloved posters used "The Stroke" as an alter ego for a year or more?
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Tubby Isaacs Posts: 13654	posted 21-06-2012 20:59 Yeah but I had no idea who he was before.
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Tubby Isaacs
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posted 21-06-2012 21:09

John "The Bull" O'Donoghue

Thanks for this chap.

According to wiki:

A keen interest in racing appears to have led to the downfall of the Irish parliament's speaker, John O'Donoghue, forced to resign this week over expenses claims during his term as minister for arts, sport and tourism. Horse Racing Ireland forked out more than €20,000 (£18,500) on behalf of delegations led by O'Donoghue for trips to meetings between 2003 and 2007, including the Melbourne Cup and the Cheltenham and Aintree festivals. O'Donoughue spent €600 travelling to Aintree in a limousine.

Nice understatement. Because interest in racing obviously compels you to travel in a limo.

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ursus arctos Posts: 26495	posted 21-06-2012 21:14 Tubbs, Fahy is now Analogue Bubblebath (though rarely here) and was also Hedley Lamarr, Murray Mexted and others.
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Tubby Isaacs Posts: 13654	posted 21-06-2012 21:17 This bloke doesn't come out of the book very well: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_McCreevy
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Tubby Isaacs Posts: 13654	posted 21-06-2012 21:18 ursus arctos wrote: Tubbs, Fahy is now Analogue Bubblebath (though rarely here) and was also Hedley Lamarr, Murray Mexted and others. Yeah, I remember all that. It was the real "Stroke" I was ignorant of. Are Fine Gael going to cut the pensions paid to the "guilty men" of recent past?
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ursus arctos Posts: 26495	posted 21-06-2012 21:20 I've met McCreevy on a couple of occasions (in addition to sitting just behind Haughey at the Ireland/Italy World Cup match in '94). I'm going to have to read this book.
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Tubby Isaacs
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posted 23-06-2012 12:16

It's very good. A heavyweight like yourself might prefer this one though:

www.ft.com/cms/s/2/02db1a9e-abd5-11e1-a8...0.html#axzz1yc7ERyBs

Elaine Byrne, lecturer in politics at Trinity College Dublin, reminds us how much British rule depended on patronage. This engendered an ambivalence towards central authority and “a legacy of negative association with informing”. Early on, Sinn Féin undermined the Irish party at Westminster for taking “the Saxon shilling” and practising “Dublin Castle jobbery”.

An interesting idea.

There's a fantastic quote in one of the Amazon reader reviews:

"I might have appointed somebody but I appointed them because they were friends, not because of anything they had given me"

Bertie Ahern, on RTÉ Six One News, 26/9/2006

Last Edit: 23-06-2012 12:17:23 by Tubby Isaacs.

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Tubby Isaacs Posts: 13654	posted 23-06-2012 12:18 I should buy the FT as weekends, shouldn't I? But they do insist on putting Christopher Caldwell in.
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Diable Rouge Every silver lining has a cloud Posts: 4418	posted 23-06-2012 14:59 [quote="Tubby Isaacs" post=681790] Early on, Sinn Féin undermined the Irish party at Westminster for taking “the Saxon shilling” and practising “Dublin Castle jobbery”. Meanwhile, McGuinness will shake the Queen's hand next week.
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Duncan Gardner Put out more flags! Posts: 6640	posted 23-06-2012 19:59 Sir Marty McGuinness KBE. Phil the Greek is set to kick the old fraud very hard in the nads. Hoping to do one good deed before he goes...
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