scoundrels

Eamon Dunphy: Beer and cocaine snorter. Formerly a critic of Ireland's corrupt kleptocratic Fianna Fail class until he started snorting beer and cocaine with Ireland's corrupt kleptocratic Fianna Fail class. Now reinventing himself once more as a critic of Ireland's corrupt kleptocratic Fianna Fail class. Let's not let him do it.
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President Mary McAleese: Northie socialist who somehow became President of Ireland through a tacit alliance with Ireland's corrupt kleptocratic Fianna Fail class. Occasionally likes to pose Catholic. It's just a pose. Claimed a few years ago to a bunch of school kids in Athy that "we are the first generation with the means to end poverty." She was advocating limitless spending on limitless socialisms which of course has as it always does led to limitless economic collapse. Now reinventing herself as the moral guardian of the nation. Let's not let her do it.
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Garret Fitzgerald: Former Prime Minister for Ireland's main opposition party Fine Gael. Three decades ago, before Fianna Fail ever got in on throwing free money at gangster banks, Garret Fitzgerald and Fine Gael used Ireland to bail out Allied Irish Bank which as usual had gone bust through its own clownish adventurist corruption. Fitzgerald bailed em out while securing absolutely no return for the Irish people, no ownership, no guarantees of probity, nothing. Fitzgerald did ensure though that this gangster bank could continue to pay its board of directors million dollar salaries and bonuses for doing nothing right up until the moment thirty years later when reality once more kicked in and Allied Irish Banks could no longer conceal its desolate trading position with accountancy tricks. This time Fianna Fail signed us all up to pay Allied Irish Banks debts. Garret Fitzgerald got there first. He is currently busily reinventing himself as an economic sage in the pages of the Irish Times. Let's not let him do it.
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David McWilliams: Pseud economist and louche git. Several years ago he laughingly told a meeting of investors at a conference sponsored by a stockbroking and accountancy firm, that he had represented Ireland at economic consultations with the European Union as adviser to former corrupt kleptocratic Fianna Fail Prime Minister Bertie Aherne without knowing what the hell he was talking about. At the Dublin conference he made the whole thing sound like a big joke. Now posing as an advocate of fiscal rectitiude. Let's not let him do it.
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Ruairi Quinn: Member of Ireland's Labour Party. Lifelong socialist atheist abortionist. Brother of Lochlainn Quinn who as a board member of Allied Irish Banks was able to purchase a vineyard in France for thirty million quid. The nation is now picking up the tab for Allied Irish Banks thousands of millions of dollars of losses. The Quinns and their ilk think they should be let keep their vineyards. Let's not let them do it.