Is David Kearns of the Indo ignorant or devious? Hard to say. Under the heading ” ‘Let’s take one election at a time, sweet Jesus’ – Tempers flare as Gerry Adams is asked about running after next Dáil”, Kearns says that the Sinn Féin President “appeared to lose his cool” when asked if this election would be his last. “Muttering ‘sweet Jesus’ when quizzed if he would run again after the next Dáil, Deputy Adams said he was taking ‘one election at a time.’ ”
I heard that interview this morning. Maybe you did too. A half-deaf man or woman who listened would have told you that at no point did Adams either lose his cool or appear to. Play it back if RTÉ offers that facility and you’ll hear that this is the case. As for the muttering ‘Sweet Jesus’, there’s only one word for it: a lie. Adams says ‘Sweet Jesus’ as distinctly as he says “Let’s take one election at a time”, for the obvious reason that he’s doing a riff on the C &W favourite ‘One Day At A Time, Sweet Jesus’. If Kearns didn’t know that he’s remarkably ignorant of C & W. But permit me to think, based on the Indo‘s past and present form, that he is being devious. And that’s the polite word for it.
Isn’t it time the public got mad as hell and said they weren’t taking it any more? Or, alternatively, voting on Friday and sticking it to them.
“Tempers flare as Gerry Adams is asked about running after next Dáil,”
There were most certainly no flared tempers, I was annoyed at the continuous questioning as to whether he thought slab murphy could not pay taxes and still be a good republican, but this is borderline fascist state media manipulation.
To be honest, I am starting to think there would need to be changes before I would want to be part of such a corrupt and pathetically run state.
Something I never imagined I could ever say.
What the hell has happened to Ireland?
Agree entirely, North Korea eat your heart out!
I agree Jude. I also agree, wholeheartedly with my Jessica ( as always :-))
I listened to the interview today and Mr Adams certainly did not lose control of the interview. His comment is reported accurately in today’s blog.
Chomsky and Herman in their “propaganda model,” state:
“…the media serve, and propagandize on behalf of, the powerful societal interests that control and finance them. The representatives of these interests have important agendas and principles that they want to advance, and they are well positioned to shape and constrain media policy.”
Listeners tend not to be exposed to a rigorous interrogation of the policy makers and the policies producing unprecedented levels of poverty, economic migration, health inequalities, addiction, suicide and homelessness in the country at present. Informed citizens will be aware of the sustained and genuine efforts being made to deal appropriately and sensitively with legacy issues. It may be possible to fool some of the concerned citizens some of the time but not all of the concerned citizens all of the time.
When I consider today’s INDO and the SINDO I’m tempted to say
“Come back William Martin Murphy, you were never that bad!”
I’m reminded of Arthur Griffith’s comment when Edward Martyn endowed the Palestrina
Choir in the Pro-Cathedral, the Pipers’ Club and the (Abbey?) Theatre in Dublin. He said
Ireland would be better served if Martyn employed his fortune in establishing a National
Daily Paper.
What are SF doing about this? Have they any recourse through the BAI or have SF decided to leave it until after the election.
As a SF supporter I feel they need to do more to counter the constant attacks and slurs on me and other SF supporters.
I was heartened to her Mary Lou give Joan Burton a dressing down today on her political point scoring and hypocrisy re the North. SF need to up their game here.
It is scarcely surprising, Esteemed Blogmeister, that boneheads who only Bono know remain blissfully unaware of ‘One Day at a Time’.
Ko-written as it was by the Krypton-born Kris Kristofferson. ’One Day’ is appropriately bookended by two of his – and the age’s –best songs: ‘Sunday morning coming down’ and ‘Help me make it through the Night’. Sunday morning, being the very morning when devotees of Sweet Jesus don their cleanest dirty shirts.
It was the gorgeous Gloria who gloriously made Irish ears first familiar with this great Gospel song in 1977. ‘One Day at a Time’ remained in the Irish charts for 90 weeks, the longest ever . It is a record which this record holds to this very, erm, day.
Coincidentally, Gloria is a native of Navan which is in the same county as one of the mongrel foxes which Fine Gael most likes to bait Gerry Adams on the taxing question of Thomas Murphy, a border fox who is more commonly known as Slab, by default.
Perhaps, mongrel vixen might be a more suitable description of the blue bloused debater who so likes to joust with and bait the Shinner in Chief on matters of alleged financial irregularity. Which choice of debater is a matter of no little (sob) hilarity.
Consider, if you will, the following: in 2013, the IT Consultancy Company of Regina Doherty, outgoing MP for the oriental end of Royal Meath (for it is she !) went, according to a report inthe Irish Independent (sic), belly up to the tune of 280,000 smackeroos, 60 thousand of which were owed to the (gulp) Revenue Commissioners and 50 thou to (gasp) AIB.
And would the Irish Independent (sic) lie? II mean, come ON.
This report which appeared in the issue of the II (sic) date marked the almost palindromatic 23/ 01/ 2013 named the company as (sigh) Enhanced Solutions Ltd.
-Business failure is not an offence but accounts filed before the liquidation reveal damning evidence that the company was not being properly run. In a special report in August 2012 the company’s own independent auditors said it had failed to keep proper books of account in 2010, the last period covered by filed financial accounts.
To listen on the radio to the outgoing Missy Regina D. not at all infrequently mount her high-minded high horse and to hear her waxing all prissy on the taxing question of financial improbity is one thing. And another is to do so while bearing in mind that Royal Meath was also the home county of perhaps the greatest Hibernian horse of the lot, Arkle, is to be tempted to remark that this sparkling fine gal of a Fine Gaeler truly has a neck like a jockey’s enhanced solution.
But The Perkin, ca va sans dire/ ni ga a ra, is not one of those ungall-ant listeners. He is blessed with more gentlemanly cop-on than that, for it is a keystone of the Warbeckian way to observe the proprieties at all times where the Ladies , God bless ‘em, are concerned.
That is why he can’t get no satisfaction at all at all from quoting the following excerpt from the same Irish Independent (sic) report.
-Failure to keep proper books of accounts is a specific offence under Section 202 of the Companies Act. As a director of the IT consultancy the East Meath TD could possibly face severe penalties, in the extreme case involving up to 5 years in jail and a fine of 10,000 euros.
Yes, indeed, a (gulp) fine, gal. And each day of the 5 years in chokey to be served (gasp) one day at a time, S.J.
Tiocfaidh ar La , a Iosa Milis, agus is leor sin don am i lathair.