‘No, you come on’: Tánaiste bristles on radio when asked if Ireland ‘looks like poor country’

https://www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-narrative-tanaiste-rejects-idea-that-ireland-is-a-failed-state-6489654-Sep2024/

Posted by badger-biscuits

21 Comments

  1. Shops closing at a higher rate in the west with houses and building falling all around us 

    Ah come on sure

  2. This nasty shithead *really* doesn’t like being challenged. Petty little narcissist will bristle and hiss at anyone who dares tell him that he or his party aren’t perfect. A graduate of the [Harry Wormwood school of politics](https://youtu.be/QriZJ-X3wbU).

  3. Record homelessness levels.

    Huge waiting list for social and ‘affordable’ housing.

    Huge waiting lists for non life threatening (but life improving) treatments like cataracts, hip ops etc.

    Cities being hollowed out by hotels, student accommodation and holiday lettings.

    Dearth of social or cultural nightlife for citizens due to high commercial rates and rents and every empty space being used for above.

    Can’t get to see a GP in any reasonable time frame.

    Can’t get a GP to take you on unless on a medical card.

    Inability to recruit or retain required numbers of police, paramedics, nurses, doctors etc.

    Roads gridlocked morning & evening.

    Still no start of construction on the goddamn Dublin metro.

    Government squandering huge money on shite like RTE, that bike shed, and its inability to control costs on big infrastructure projects like children’s hospital.

    Great job Michael & FF/FG, thanks so much!

  4. Own-Pirate-8001 on

    > Brexit was an existential threat at the time to our trade and economy.

    Fianna Fáil is an even bigger existential threat to trade and the economy.

  5. That_Technician_439 on

    Ireland looks like a poor country?

    Tell me you’ve never lived anywhere else without telling me you’ve never lived anywhere else

  6. under-secretary4war on

    I do wonder if a significant change in government can actually bring about change. I have zero faith in the current shower but sometimes it feels like these problems are endemic. I really hope I’m wrong but I have mates in various civil service departments and some of what they tell is chilling. The HSE in particular seem to be almost above the law.

  7. Alarmed_Fee_4820 on

    First of all, nobody should be seeing a GP unless they have seen a pharmacist or a community nurse. It’s clogging the system. Agree with some of your points, but the you never mentioned the high levels of anti social behaviour on our streets and very little action being taken to address it. Take away the independence of the judiciary and have the Garda increased powers of searching, arrest and detention up to 72 hours. This left wing approach the gov has taken has failed, even the opposition have agreed with the government 95% of the time with regards to illegal immigration. We need hard right judges. You also didn’t mention illegal immigration and the stretched resources that this requires, fellow EU and Irish citizens are paying the cost,

  8. Odd-Internal-3983 on

    The super powers in our world often have the greatest levels of inequality in society. We’ll be one of the greats soon.

  9. I was in secondary school 30 years ago and I m shocked when being invited to my son school. Fuck me lads third world. I’m Polish and we where poor country but what I saw shocked me. Education facilities in Ireland are in dark age

  10. Michael is a nasty enough character, he doesn’t like being questioned. Also, he’s perusing a tactic or dividing and labeling anyone who questions him, not unlike Trump and the MAGAS, instead of lefty liberals though one label is to call them a Shinner

    Be careful Michael, the mask is slipping a bit.

  11. InterviewEast3798 on

    poor ole Michael is used to soft ball questions from his cork friends in the irish examiner.Hes arrogance really shines through when hes asked tough questions