Wow I had no idea that we already got the 6 counties back, bleedin gift!
Eh, isn’t a half of a quarter one eighth?

The busted flush that you speak of is running the 6 counties in a coalition environement that would make the Greens wilt and you know what they are not doing too bad. You may not be a fan but that does not mean they cant run the country. They are already running a quarter of it.

We can debate issues of health and safety forever. Abortion is a matter of women exercising choice – not the business of any government. And the history of the Planet has been wars – and rumours of wars.

de Valera was ready to support Germany, during his purported declaration of “neutrality” in 1939-1945. So lets not hear that word.

But taxation is the life blood of all member states. Without a positive cash flow and progressive taxation, there can be no research & development; no properly funded health systems; no nuclear power stations – or water desalination plants etc…

Concentrate on doing what is necessary.

Everything else is window dressing, and a lot of comments that are being made – by the likes of Adams & his girl friend, Marylou – are “hot air” – attempts to regain ground lost in the last election.

They are a busted flush, walking backwards into the future. They know diddly squat about running a country in the 21st century.

Ditto for Begg; O’Connor; Halpenny; Doran; CORI and their Ilk.

Ahern, their best buddy, has been found out, he is gone; bad history – giving Ireland an opportunity to move forward.

Grab it, Brian Cowen, before it evaporates.

Besides, the current asylum proposals forwarded by the French presidency are ones which our government say they are willing to sign up to? (They are probably stricter measures than our own, though we are hardly a beacon of humanity).

What is this about the veto in public health? Our public health system is at the bottom of the European league. Certainly in many respects our investment and provision is below OECD average. We are so far off the best in class that it isn’t funny any more. Do you really believe that those which have some of the best health systems in the world are signing them away in Lisbon? That is utterly incredible. In fact, the sensitivity of some of those nations with better funded services is precisely why there are protections and clauses in Lisbon to protect areas like Services of a General Interest, or public services. Not only that, health gets a specific mention where it leaves the funding and provision of the service at the pleasure of each nation.

The remark about forcing nuclear on Ireland is really scrapping the barrel. It is even better when you look at the cost of energy and realise that we are soon going to be hooking up bigger connectors to Britain to buy energy they will increasingly produce using …nuclear.